California: Unions sue to keep citizen initiative off ballot
Two employee unions and a resident filed a lawsuit today (June 23) against the city of Menlo Park and a resident involved in the effort to place an initiative on the November ballot that would alter pension benefits for new employees. The unions and Menlo Park resident Katy Rose, who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, held a press conference at noon today (June 23) at the Menlo Park Civic Center to announce the legal challenge; the lawsuit asserts that the pension reform initiative violates the California Constitution, and asks that it be kept off the ballot.