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California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, [1] was an unsuccessful ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. [2] It was sponsored by John Briggs , a conservative state legislator from Orange County .
Briggs' messages supporting Proposition 6 were pervasive throughout California, and Harvey Milk attended every event Briggs hosted. Milk campaigned against the bill throughout the state as well, [ 114 ] and swore that if Briggs won California, he would still not win San Francisco. [ 115 ]
Milk also launches an effort to defeat Proposition 6, an initiative on the California state ballot in November 1978. Sponsored by John Briggs , a conservative state senator from Orange County , Proposition 6 seeks to ban gays and lesbians (in addition to anyone who supports them) from working in California's public schools.
In Stanislaus County, about 65% of voters rejected a ballot measure in the Nov. 5 election that sought to end forced labor in prisons and jails in California. Proposition 6, which was defeated ...
Not that jobs go undone: More than 90,000 people are in California's prisons, and only about 35,000 have jobs. And if Proposition 6 had passed, prisoners still would have been able to work on a ...
Prop. 34 is a not-so-veiled attempt to strike back at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said Castillo, the veteran strategist. It threatens the financial resources of the organization, he added ...
The first attempt to restrict gay and lesbian rights through a state wide ballot measure occurred in 1978 in California. [2] While the measure failed, the late-1980s and early 1990s saw a resurgence in ballot initiatives, culminating in proposed state constitutional amendments in Oregon and Colorado not only to repeal existing anti-discrimination ordinances but to proactively prohibit the ...
Proposition 6 This would change the California Constitution to ban forced labor in any form . The constitution currently bans involuntary servitude, or forced labor, except as a punishment for crime.