Former Novato councilman Dennis Fishwick - acting on his own behalf without an attorney - filed the lawsuit in Marin Superior Court against the district and SMART board, saying they stripped the right of Marin voters to reject the quarter-cent sales tax with a less than two-thirds approval. State law requires a tax increase to receive two-thirds approval from voters.
Measure Q received 73.5 percent approval in Sonoma County, but only 62.8 percent in Marin. That caused confusion among some Marin voters, who thought the measure had been defeated.
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It's hardly new, or unique to Cali, for certain provisions to be "This has to pass with a TWO-THIRDS majority in ALL counties"...
...though I think there are less obnoxious ways to protect against tyranny of the majority.
And Marin County shoots itself in the foot for another 30 years.
Who cares about marin county? It's just a retirement home for old people (perhaps in young bodies).
They won with 62%, not by 62%.
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