Jan 18, 2004 Comments Off
The Return of Proposition 187?
Supporters of Proposition 187 have begun a new campaign called “Save Our State Initiative” to place a revised version of the measure on the November 2004 statewide ballot, the Los Angeles Times reports (Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12/20).
Proposition 187, which California voters approved in 1994 but the state never implemented because of court challenges, would have restricted access to nonemergency health and other public services for undocumented immigrants. Supporters of the revised measure must collect 500,900 valid signatures by April to place the measure on the November ballot. Campaign organizer Ron Prince said that the campaign over the past two weeks has collected “hundreds of signatures and several thousand dollars,” the AP/Washington Post reports.
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