Today, Secretary of State Debra Bowen made publicly available the Prop 17 ballot arguments and rebuttals.
Prop 17 Title and Summary:
http://www.campaignforconsumerrights.org/resources/title-summary-prop-17.pdf
Ballot Argument Against Mercury’s Prop 17:
http://www.campaignforconsumerrights.org/resources/arg-against-prop-17.pdf
Rebuttal Argument to Mercury’s Prop 17:
http://www.campaignforconsumerrights.org/resources/rebut-arg-in-favor-prop-17.pdf
Our argument was signed by Elisa Odabashian, Director of the West Coast Office of Consumer Union and Jon Soltz, Chair of VoteVets.org, which represents 100,00 veterans and their families.
Our rebuttal was signed by former Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and John Van de Kamp, the former Attorney General. Garamendi was the first to win the office of Insurance Commissioner, made an elective post by Prop. 103. Garamendi delivered $1.2 billion in refund checks during his first term, and successfully defeated an earlier attempt by Mercury to engage in the practices that Prop. 17 would legalize. As Attorney General, John Van de Kamp successfully defended Proposition 103 in the courts after insurance companies sued to block the law from taking effect the day after Election Day in November, 1988.
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