{"id":1560,"date":"2014-09-16T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2024-11-15T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:02:47","slug":"dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Is Over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/dream\/\" data-text=\"The Dream Is Over&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2014\/09\/12\/secretary-of-state-6-californias-initiative-fails-to-qualify-for-2016-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8230;&#8221;Six States&#8221; initiative fails to qualify for ballot.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it was fun while it lasted, but according to the California Secretary of State, insufficient valid signatures were submitted to qualify the initiative for the 2016 ballot. \u00a0The initiative would have carved California up into six separate states. \u00a0You can read<a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this <\/a>for backgound.<\/p>\n<p>I opined early on that this would never come to fruition because it would upset a very large apple cart for the Democratic Party and Public Sector Labor Unions that have a stranglehold on political power in this state. \u00a0They found this baby in it&#8217;s cradle and pressed the pillow hard. \u00a0Long Live the Status Quo!<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 800,000 signatures were required for the initiative to qualify &#8211; nearly 1.4 million were submitted, a seemingly sufficent margin for error. \u00a0The SOS predicted that only 66 percent of the signatures were valid based on &#8220;random sampling&#8221;. \u00a0So fully 1\/3 of the submited signatures were deemed &#8220;invalid&#8221;. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to see a little more in depth reporting on this. \u00a0The sponsors of the initiative have promised a review of the invalid signatures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <em>certain<\/em> that the Secretary of State did a careful and thorough job of verification. \u00a0<em><strong>Certain!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObNBapALwco?si=HArvDfBYZYRen6EW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two drummers. \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0And Mike McDonald when he was still &#8220;Salt and Pepper Lightning&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;&#8221;Six States&#8221; initiative fails to qualify for ballot. Well, it was fun while it lasted, but according to the California Secretary of State, insufficient valid signatures were submitted to qualify the initiative for the 2016 ballot. \u00a0The initiative would have carved California up into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}