摘要:Anyone who has worked on a statewide ballot measure campaign knows it has some things in common with pregnancy, except the gestation period is often an unbearable 16 to 18 months or longer. It starts when the ballot measure is only a hope, a prayer and an idea. It develops over a period of a few months as the idea is refined, put into legal language and finally filed with the state Attorney General’s Office at least 14 to 15 months before appearing on the statewide ballot. This requires long-range planning, and that is exactly what we did with Proposition 22.