2004 California Proposition 66

Referendum on the three-strikes law Proposition 66 was a California ballot proposition on the November 2, 2004 ballot. It was a proposed amendment to the California three-strikes law (implemented in 1994 with Proposition 184). Prop 66 would have required the third felony charge against a suspect to be especially violent and/or serious crimes to mandate a 25-years-to-life sentence. It also would have changed the definition of some felonies.http://www.smartvoter.org/2004/11/02/ca/state/prop/66/ Proposition 66: Limitations on "Three Strikes" Law. Sex Crimes. Punishment - California State Government 2010-08-01 2010-06-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20100620104122/http://www.smartvoter.org/2004/11/02/ca/state/prop/66/ dead It was rejected by voters, with 52.7% voting against the proposition. Though polls indicated that the measure would be overwhelmingly approved by California voters, public opinion shifted dramatically in the last days of the campaign. Opponents argued that its wording was so ambiguous that it threatened to shorten sentences for far more convicts than proponents estimated, and that it would have categorized some serious felonies—assault with intent to rape an elderly or disabled person, for example—as nonviolent crimes.https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/PROPOSITION-66-Efforts-to-reform-three-2638541.php https://archive.today/20120707014740/http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-11-04/bay-area/17451993_1_three-strikes-strikes-law-sentences live July 7, 2012 PROPOSITION 66 / Efforts to reform 'three strikes' law likely to be on ballot again 4 November 2004 Days away from the election, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was joined by Henry Nicholas, co-founder and former co-chairman, president and chief executive officer of Broadcom Corporation and a victims’ rights advocate whose sister was murdered in 1983, as well as former Governors Jerry Brown, Pete Wilson, Gray Davis and George Deukmejian in launching an intensive radio and television advertising campaign against the ballot initiative.TV-commercial of Arnold Schwarzenegger against Proposition 66 The ads warned that Prop. 66, if passed, “would release 26,000 dangerous criminals and rapists. Nicholas contributed $3 million to the campaignSeptember 2026 and flew former Gov. Brown to Long Beach from Oakland to record radio ads with him in the home recording studio belonging to Ryan Shuck of the rock group Orgy.September 2016 Joining them was Dave Silvera, of the band Korn.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-07-me-pete7-story.html How Prospects for Prop. 66 Fell So Far, So Fast Los Angeles Times November 7, 2004 September 30, 2016 Mathews, JoeSeptember 2016 Over the next several days, an ad blitz including spots from Shuck and Silvera blanketed radio stations across the state. At one point ahead in the polls by more than a 3-to-1 margin [6], Prop 66 failed to pass, with 5,604,060 voters (47.3 percent) voting for, 6,238,060 (52.7 percent) voting no, and 747,563 (5.9 percent) casting no vote. Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, called the come-from-behind campaign to defeat Prop 66 “unprecedented” in California electoral politics. Results left|250px Proposition 66 5604060 11842120 6238060 16557273 747563 See also California Proposition 36 (2000) - a successful amendment to the three-strikes law California Proposition 47 (2014) - a successful amendment to the three-strikes law References 66 Category:Initiatives in the United States Category:Three-strikes law