David Gamage quoted in San Jose Mercury News, August 31, 2012
“The court said the ruling doesn’t matter whether supervisors are actually going to be on the ballot this election cycle (in November) as long as it’s the type of election where supervisors would be on the ballot,” said David Gamage, an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he specializes in tax law, including state and local taxes. Gamage said the judge didn’t think the language in the provision was ambiguous, but even if it was, the intention behind Proposition 218 was to make sure that local governments don’t schedule “some off-cycle election where very few people would vote.”