Ruling blocks Sacramento's 'strong mayor' initiative from June ballot

Sacramento Business Journal:  The effort to put a "strong mayor" proposal on the June 8 ballot ran into a roadblock Thursday in the Third District Court of Appeal.

“I'm very disappointed by the decision, and that’s putting it mildly,” Johnson said in a prepared release. “I'm inspired like never before to fight for the people of Sacramento. Today, citizens have been denied their right to vote, and accountability have been told to wait in line.”

Johnson sought a ballot measure seeking to change the structure of the city, but that ballot measure’s standing was legally challenged because it sought to change the city’s charter, and those changes are supposed to come from the city’s charter commission or City Council.

The appeals court on Thursday said no to delaying a previous court’s decision to block the initiative from the ballot.

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