Proposition 71 passage authorizes spending $3 billion on embryonic stem cell research
Zach W. Hall, Ph.D., is the Interim President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), a research center established by the passage of California Proposition 71 in the November, 2004, general election, in which it received 59.4% of the votes cast on the measure.
The passage of Proposition 71 also established the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) as the governing board of directors in charge of the operations of the CIRM.
Proposition 71 authorized the State of California to sell $3 billion in bonds to finance embryonic stem cell research to be administered by the CIRM under the supervision of the ICOC.
Litigation blocks sale of embryonic stem cell research bonds
Zach Hall, Ph.D., Interim President of CIRM, denounces "special interests" preventing embryonic stem cell research bond sales
Yesterday, July 11, 2005, CIRM Interim President Zach Hall issued a statement, published on the CIRM web site at
http://www.cirm.ca.gov/pressreleases/2005/07/07-11-05.asp about that litigation.
Here is what he said, in its entirety:
"California’s medical research scientists are poised to move ahead and join scientists in
South Korea and elsewhere on the forefront of stem cell research. Unfortunately, we are prevented from doing so by special interests whose sole intentions are to thwart the voters’ overwhelming endorsement of the science."
An interview with the lawyer for the "special interests"
California Politics Today and
Podmedia Reports spoke today with Dana Cody, attorney for the putative "special interests" being condemned by Zach Hall in yesterday's press release.
You can listen to that conversation with attorney Dana Cody in its entirety by clicking
here.
Process, not substance, now on tap for August 4, 2005, court date
During that interview, Ms. Cody indicated that the substantive hearing("Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings") on the case she's brought against ICOC, originally scheduled for August 4, 2005, has now been postponed so that that court date can be used to discuss the consolidation of that case with another one more recently brought against the progeny of Proposition 71. She indicated that she'd prefer that the cases NOT be aggregated.
According to Ms. Cody, this additional case seeks to go beyond the suit being brought by Ms. Cody on behalf of People's Advocate, the CEO of which, Ted Costa, appeared today on
California Politics Today and
Podmedia Reports to talk about his efforts to keep Proposition 77, the redistricting initiative, on the November 8, 2005, Statewide Special Election ballot in the wake of California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's now-pending lawsuit seeking to exclude it from that election on the grounds that the language of the proposed law implementing a new redistricting system was not the same as the language submitted by its proponents to the Office of the Attorney General for the preparation of an official Title and Summary.
The litigants bringing this second case, she indicated, are arguing for the invalidation of the bond sales authorized under the provisions of Proposition 71.
You can listen to interviews about the Proposition 77 dispute with Mr. Costa and Mr. Lockyer by clicking here:
7-11-05: Ted Costa, CEO of People's Advocate, defends Proposition 77's right to be on the November 8, 2005, California Statewide Special Election ballot, while Bill Lockyer, California's Attorney General, explains why it shouldn't be there (California Politics Today™ #379).
ICOC announces approval of "policy enhancements" in its relationship with the State and People of California
To read a press release, issued today by the CIRM, which quotes CIRM Interim President Zach Hall and ICOC Chair Robert Klein II on the approval in Irvine, California, by the ICOC, of "policies designed to establish model standards -- in partnership with the Legislature and the public -- for the CIRM and stem cell research," click
here
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