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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Loren Kaye</b>, President of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education, argued not so much against the content of the advisory question, but against legislatively referred advisory referendums as tools for acquiring the populace's opinion on federal issues. He asserted that there is no legal basis for advisory questions in California. He noted:</font></p>http://cfce.calchamber.com/</div><div>
</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Loren Kaye was appointed president of the Foundation in January 2006. Kaye has devoted his career to developing, analyzing and implementing public policy issues in California, with a special emphasis on improving the state’s business and economic climate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kaye is also a gubernatorial appointee to the state’s Little Hoover Commission, charged with evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of state agencies and programs. He served in senior policy positions for Governors Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian, including Cabinet Secretary to the Governor and Undersecretary of the California Trade and Commerce Agency. Kaye has also represented numerous private sector interests, managing issues that affect specific business sectors to promote an improved business climate or to<b> resist further regulation or costs on business</b>. Kaye lives in Sacramento with his wife and daughter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The California Foundation for Commerce and Education is affiliated with the California Chamber of Commerce and serves as a “think tank” for the California business community. The Foundation is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the California business climate and private enterprise through accurate, impartial and objective research and analysis of public policy issues of interest to the California business and public policy communities.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kaye is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in political science.</p>=<table style="line-height: 21px; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="20" valign="top" style="border: none; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" padding="padding" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“</font></td><td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nowhere by the Constitution or laws of the state is the Legislature granted the authority to place an advisory measure on the statewide ballot... The advisory measure being considered by the Legislature requires only a simple majority (and the Governor’s signature) to reach the ballot – at least by the Legislature’s rules...</font><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since the initiative is the People stepping into the shoes of the Legislature, and since the Legislature is given no authority to propose to the voters any measure the voters cannot propose to themselves, it seems this argument is equally apt to a Legislature’s proposed advisory measure...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s true that the subject of this legislation is a federal matter over which the Legislature has no jurisdiction in the first place. But given a taste of what amounts to opinion polling on steroids – with no accountability for the results – any Legislature would find the mechanism irresistible.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">First, the Legislature could put popular notions to the public in generic and abstract terms, obtain voter support, and use the resulting “mandate” to roll over legitimate opposition to a legislative measure that necessarily must be more detailed...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A second and more likely abuse of this power would be to place advisory measures on the ballot with a majority vote to help goose turnout of the majority party’s base to support their candidate ticket. This would be the most cynical use of this tool, since it has nothing to do with the policy being debated... <sup id="cite_ref-quotedisclaimer_3-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_49,Amendment_to_Overturn_Citizens_United_Ruling_Question(2014)#cite_note-quotedisclaimer-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></sup></font></p></td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold" text-align="text-align" right="right" padding="padding" px="px">
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</font></td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">President</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">California Foundation for Commerce and Education</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">1215 K Street, Suite 1400</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">Sacramento, CA 95814</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">(916) 930-1214</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">
</td><td colspan="3" class="cquotecite" style="border: none; padding-right: 38.1563px;">The California Foundation for Commerce and Education is a think tank affiliated with CalChamber. A 501(c)(3) organization, the Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocate for private enterprise and the market economy.</td></tr></tbody></table></div>