[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the article:

Only then can the opposition begin to gather the 419,260 signatures necessary to put a referendum on the ballot.

Maybe dalereed knows why!

[Dog Gone]

It's possible that enabling legislation for a referendum in California specifies that the law must be enacted before the signatures are collected. It certainly wouldn't be proper to collect signatures while the bill was being ironed out in the legislature, for example. Otherwise, you could start collecting signatures every year when the legislature opens, and that makes no sense.

[dalereed]

"Maybe dalereed knows why!"

I told you this was going to happen!

Duffus will wait until the last posible day before he signs is, and he will sign it, what an AH!