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Will the City Council Block the "Strong Mayor/Council" Initiative?

It's official: the initiative to change Sacramento's city charter and modernize its city government has qualified for an upcoming ballot. http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=6927. More than 50,000 qualified signatures of Sacramento voters were verified by election officials.  But now what? With citizen initiatives at the state level, once a petition qualifies, it appears on the next ballot. Which makes perfect sense: since voters are trying to go around the Legislature, the Legislature is powerless to stop a citizen initiative from appearing on the ballot But not here in Sacramento. The City Council gets to decide when it appears on the ballot. So it could be d

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