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California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, [1] was an unsuccessful ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. [2] It was sponsored by John Briggs , a conservative state legislator from Orange County .
Briggs' messages supporting Proposition 6 were pervasive throughout California, and Harvey Milk attended every event Briggs hosted. Milk campaigned against the bill throughout the state as well, [ 114 ] and swore that if Briggs won California, he would still not win San Francisco. [ 115 ]
[4] [11] [12] As a result, and through the work of Mixner, Scott, legendary gay rights activist and San Francisco City Councilman Harvey Milk, and others, Proposition 6 was defeated by over a million votes, the first ballot initiative of its sort to be shot down. [13]
He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978, ... despite his differences with them, friendly with Harvey Milk and gay activist Randy Shilts.
In Stanislaus County, about 65% of voters rejected a ballot measure in the Nov. 5 election that sought to end forced labor in prisons and jails in California.
Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons.
On a cool autumn morning 45 years ago, Dianne Feinstein was the first to find the body. It was November 1978, and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk had just been shot dead in his City Hall office.
A Twinkie "Twinkie defense" is a derisive label for an improbable legal defense.It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catch-all term coined by reporters during their coverage of the trial of defendant Dan White for the murders of San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.