{"id":62,"date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/proposition-59-campaign-finance-voter-instruction-yes\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"proposition-59-campaign-finance-voter-instruction-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/proposition-59-campaign-finance-voter-instruction-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"PROPOSITION 59\u00a0\u00a0 Campaign finance: voter instruction. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0YES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">This is the proposition originally denied a place on the California ballot. Now allowed by the court, Proposition 59 is merely advisory with <em>no force of law. <\/em>It instructs the California Congressional delegation to use their Constitutional authority to find a means, including a new Constitutional Amendment, to overturn the Supreme Court ruling in <em>Citizens United v Federal Elections Commission<\/em> (558 U.S.310) and other judicial precedents that have expanded the presence of unlimited corporate money to be used to influence election outcomes. Although advisory, Prop. 59 will express the \u201cmind of the citizens\u201d in calling for strategies to end the power of money in our campaigns.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none \" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\"> <a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.churchimpact.org\/\/uploads\/4\/1\/4\/8\/41486323\/yes59_orig.jpg?w=1160\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:auto;max-width:100%\"> <\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the proposition originally denied a place on the California ballot. Now allowed by the court, Proposition 59 is merely advisory with no force &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/proposition-59-campaign-finance-voter-instruction-yes\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}