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California Politics: Big bucks for ballot measure signatures

Jan. 28, 2022

It’s conventional wisdom in California politics that almost any proposed law can get on the ballot if its backers have enough cash.

The era of grass-roots, volunteer signature drives to qualify a ballot measure long ago gave way to an “initiative industrial complex” that pays petition circulators by how many signatures they collect at those ubiquitous folding tables outside supermarkets and department stores.

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