HomeMy WebLinkAbout59-210RESOLUTION NO. 59-~10 OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
EXPRESSING 0PPOSITI0!~ TO ~I Ii{ITIATIVE CONSTITU-
TIONAL A~ND~t~Z~T TO REAPPORTION '±~HE CALIFOR.~IA
STATE S~ATE
~W~EREAS, there is presently an attempt to promote a con-
stitutional amendment requiring reapportionment of areas from which
State Sen~ors are elected; and
~EREAS, the traditional syst~'n of legislative representation
is a basic part and parcel of the American heritage of checks and
balances in Government; has, particularly during the past forty
year~ provided the legislative brach of our State Government with
a deliberative group of legislators, free from the control of ward
bosses and the order givers that all too often have assumed con-
trol of voters in the highly congested areas or slum districts,
where all too often the least able and least informed voters can
most easily be directed, and as a result thereof has done much to
preserve and safeguard traditional American Government forms and
func t ioning.
NOW, T[HEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY C0~CIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFOrnIA: That they hereby express their
present opposition to any constitutional amendment seeking the re-
apportionment of the basis, districts or areas from which State
Senators are elected, in the firm belief that the State Senate as
presently constituted offers one of the best safeguards, or at
least retarding influence against control by organized crime, or
by evil men who control organizations with expressed wort~ypurposes
composed largely of masses of ignorant, unthinking, propagandized
voters in areas of our greatest population density; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the best interest of all the
people of the State of California, particularly the large groups
of controlle~uninformed voters, has been, is, and will continue
to be better served, and the rights of said voters better and more
economically protected by governmental services by the adherence
to the traditional manner of electing our State Legislators.
PASSED AMD ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its regular meeting held on the 3rd day of August, 1959.
ATTEST:
cr~RK-0~i THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF OR~GE ) SS
CITY OF SAMTA AICPA )
I, L~L~HION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that E am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution
was regularly introduced to said Council at its regular meeting
held on the 3rd day of' August, 1959, s~d was at said meeting regu-
larly passed and adopted by the follo~wing vote, to-wit:
AYES, COUNCIL~flEN: Royal E. Hubbard, Stanley C. Gc,,l~ Jr.,
A.4 N"11~ Dale H. Nei,~ly
NOES, COUNC I LI~,1E~:
ABSENT, COUi~C IL~,~N:
C~ERK OF TI~E COUNCIL
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