Governor assailed over special election / Critics see today's expected move as a misuse of state's initiative process: "Consumer activist Harvey Rosenfield told the Commonwealth Club of California that Schwarzenegger is guilty of 'an abuse of executive power'' in calling a Nov. 8 special election.
'Never before, to our knowledge, has a sitting governor invoked his constitutional authority to call a special election when the only purpose of the election is the enactment of his own ballot measures,'' said Rosenfield, the founder and former president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, who spearheaded Proposition 103 in 1988 to roll back auto insurance rates. "
'Never before, to our knowledge, has a sitting governor invoked his constitutional authority to call a special election when the only purpose of the election is the enactment of his own ballot measures,'' said Rosenfield, the founder and former president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, who spearheaded Proposition 103 in 1988 to roll back auto insurance rates. "
