If anyone's wondering, California's top-two system came into being because a Republican senator in 2008 traded it being voted on for letting a budget go through.

Look, budgets were very hard to pass before Prop 25 (2010).

Major donor? Republican Charles Munger, Jr. ivn.us/posts/the-real-history-californias-top-two-nonpartisan-primary-electoral-reform

April 10, 2026 - 23:37 UTC

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Well, presumable donor to the Independent Voter Project that got it onto the ballot. Here were the $25k+ donors once it became Prop 14 on the June 2010 ballot
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The guy who founded the Independent Voter Project is the man who caused the energy crisis a quarter century before with his badly written law, Steve Peace.
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