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The California special election of 2005 was held on November 8, 2005 after being called by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on June 13, 2005. ==Summary== The California special election of 2005 was held on November 8, 2005 after being called by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on June 13, 2005. California voters rejected all eight ballot propositions. Propositions 73, 76, and 77 were initiative constitutional amendments while the others were initiative statutes. The election was believed to have been the most expensive in California history. Lobby groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars on gathering signatures and advertising for this election. Schwarzenegger called the election to allow voters to decide on propositions regarding teacher tenure requirements (Proposition 74), the use of union dues for political campaign contributions (Proposition 75), state budgetary spending limits (Proposition 76), and redistricting (Proposition 77). Schwarzenegger originally proposed a fifth proposition on the issue of public pension, but dropped that proposition amid criticism that the proposition would eliminate death benefits to widows of police and firefighters who died in the line of duty 〔(Governor gives up on overhaul of public pensions )〕 The four propositions that made it to the ballot eventually came to be known as Governor Schwarzenegger's Reform Agenda. The Governor claimed his agenda would clear the way for correction of the problems he was elected to solve. An alliance of public sector unions expended $24 million campaigning against Schwarzenegger's fiscal reform, with the California Teachers Association expending an additional $56 million and going so far as to mortgage its Sacramento headquarters to fund more campaign spending.〔http://www.followthemoney.org/election-overview?s=CA&y=2005〕 Schwarzenegger likewise spent nearly $8 million of his own fortune campaigning.〔http://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?d-eid=2138468&y=2005〕 The tenor was highly divisive, with Schwarzenegger calling his opponents “stooges” and at one point Warren Beatty leading a bus full of public employees to follow the governor and shout down his events. All Governor Schwarzenegger’s other fiscal reform agenda initiatives were defeated by wide margins.〔(Richard Hasen, Assessing California's Hybrid Democracy, 97 Cal. L. Rev. 1501 (2009). )〕 It had been the most expensive election in California history. As the results came out in Sacramento a public union boss waived a broom over his head while state employees chanted “sweep, sweep, sweep”. SEIU's use of compulsory fees on nonmembers to fund its campaign was later found illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court in ''Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000''. Four other propositions appeared on the ballot because they qualified for the next statewide elections. The four other propositions were: * ''Proposition 73'': Parental notification for abortions by minors * ''Proposition 78'': A proposition on prescription drugs put by the pharmaceutical industry * ''Proposition 79'': A proposition on prescription drugs put by consumer groups in response to Proposition 78 * ''Proposition 80'': Electric industry regulation 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「California special election, 2005」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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