Talk:1978 California Proposition 6

This is not the only major initiative known as the "Briggs Initiative"
There is at least one other major initiative known as the "Briggs Initiative." Most notably, Prop. 7, 1978, dramatically expanded the scope of California's death penalty. It was intended to "give Californians the toughest death-penalty law in the country," by which its proponents meant the law "which threatens to inflict that penalty on the maximum number of defendants." California now has one of the most expensive, least efficient death penalty systems in the country, with 660+ inmates on death row, costing both the state and federal government millions and millions per year.

See: California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN CALIFORNIA, http://www.ccfaj.org/documents/reports/dp/official/FINAL%20REPORT%20DEATH%20PENALTY.pdf

See also: Ellen Kreitzberg, A Review of Special Circumstances in California Death Case (for the Cal. Comm. on the Fair Admin. of Justice), http://www.ccfaj.org/documents/reports/dp/expert/Kreitzberg.pdf

I suggest a new page for this "other" Briggs Initiative with a disambiguation page to distinguish them. But I am a brand new user, and not yet sure how to proceed.

Awry (talk) 22:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a good suggestion: go ahead and make it so! California Proposition 7 (1978) is a redlink on John Briggs (politician), so I suggest that you just click on that link and make a new page under that name.  It probably makes sense to put disambiguation language on the top of this article instead of making a whole disambiguation page, as both Briggs initiatives are named after the same person. While constructing the page, it would be ideal if you could find sources that focus on that proposition instead of just mentioning it, but from your two sources, it certainly looks like the proposition is notable enough to have its own wikipedia page.  -  Enuja (talk) 23:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

The voting results image is horrible for people with color blindness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.162.243 (talk) 22:35, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Summary contains a false fact.
"Openly gay San Francisco native and politician Harvey Milk..."

Milk was a native of Woodmere, NY, as stated on the Harvey Milk page.

I would simply delete "native and", but I don't know how.Waynesb (talk) 05:26, 31 May 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ Well spotted, thanks!&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:19, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Citation 2 goes to a 404
The citation that goes to http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/prophist.htm#NOV78 leads to a 404 error. 161.97.25.15 (talk) 22:04, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

LGBTQI ?
There were no LGBTQI activists in 1978. There were lesbian and gay activists. Why not use the language by which they described themselves? Sajita (talk) 00:52, 24 January 2022 (UTC)


 * @Sajita, I agree, and I made some changes. This should do it. Wow (talk) 02:50, 26 April 2023 (UTC)