The Radical Solution

A week before the June 6th election the Napa Valley Register compares Oregon's Measure 37 with Napa's Measure A.

The Napa County proposal is more limited in key respects: It would take hold only in one county, and does not allow private property owners to seek compensation for laws already on the books.

But both measures stem from concerns about government encroaching on property rights, and seek to swing the pendulum toward landowners.

George Bachich, president of the Napa Valley Land Stewards Alliance, said, "We're not facing the onerous regulations that they had to face (in Oregon), and we're not proposing the radical solution that they had to take. But it's motivated by the same spirit."

I predict passage.