California's role in the presidential primaries may be complete, and the surviving presidential candidates have moved on to fresher hunting grounds for voters as they attempt to secure their parties' nominations, but the 2008 election cycle is far from over: one down, two elections to go.
According to the California Secretary of State's Web site two initiatives have qualified for California's June election.
The two qualified initiatives, Propositions 98 and 99 , would both amend California's constitution to change state and local government power to acquire property for private uses. & The issues are similar to those that would have been addressed by passage of Proposition 90 in 2006, an initiative that was defeated with 52.3 percent of the voters voting against amending the state constitution.
But government acquisition of private property, for whatever use, is in the news. The federal government is taking property to survey and build a border fence. & Downtown redevelopment is back in the limelight as San Diego and the Centre City Development Corportation, no strangers to using the power of eminent domain for private use, celebrate the restoration of the Balboa Theatre funded by downtown redevelopment tax dollars. &
