Attention: California Voters
Please Do NOT sign
away your freedom!
Do not be fooled into believing that a
Constitutional Convention is “good”!
The
American Independent Party of Los Angeles County Opposed
the California Constitutional
Convention Initiatives as follows:
WHEREAS: Two initiatives are currently being introduced to call for a Constitutional Convention to rewrite our entire California Constitution;
WHEREAS: A
simple majority of 201 out of 400 delegates at the Convention can completely
change any and all articles to our state’s constitution as they want to, and
without any “checks or balances”;
WHEREAS: With the current state deficits, public employee unions and other special interest demands from lobbyists and pressure groups that want to increase our taxes, such a Convention will most likely eliminate such property tax protections as Proposition 13 by Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann and the 2/3rds safety net required to raise our taxes;
WHEREAS: Such
a Convention may eliminate our initiative and referendum process where we, the people could correct problems
that were created by our legislature, and without this ability of we, the
people to continue to have this process, bad new articles or amendments can
no longer be repealed by a vote of the people;
WHEREAS:
Socialist welfare policies and huge tax increases will cause many
businesses and residents to leave this state simply because it will be too
expensive to continue living in California;
Therefore, be it RESOLVED that the American
Independent Party of Los Angeles County OPPOSES both of these
initiatives that call for a California Constitutional Convention, and we urge
all voters to refuse to sign any petitions that would place these
propositions on our ballot.
Authored by Elliott Graham, Vice-Pres. of United Organization of
Taxpayers, this resolution was passed unanimously by the Los Angeles County Central
Committee of the American Independent Party on July 2, 2009. Permission
to reproduce granted.