The Contra Costa Times offers this report on how California gubernatorial candidates are using initiatives as part of a political strategy, something I’ve written about in Parties Take the Initiative, 100 Columbia Law Review 731 (2000) and Rethinking the Unconstitutionality of Contribution and Expenditure Limits in Ballot Measure Campaigns, 78 Southern California Law Review 885 (2005). See also this Contra Costa Times article on the large ballot California voters will face in November.