Orange County Sues to Block Plan for Tobacco Money
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SANTA ANA — Orange County has filed suit to block a November ballot initiative that would require the county to spend 80% of its $30-million-a-year share of a national tobacco settlement on health care and anti-smoking programs.
It is the same initiative Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved last week for the November ballot. But that vote was a formality required by law after proponents filed enough signatures on petitions to bring the issue before voters.
The suit, which will be heard Aug. 30 in Orange County Superior Court, was actually authorized in closed session on June 20 on a 3-2 vote of supervisors. The suit, filed last Friday, claims Measure H violates state law and the state constitution in limiting how the board, the county’s elected body, spends county funds.
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