People’s Lobby

             press release

 

 

June 8, 1976         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact:    Joyce Koupal, 731-8321

 

STATEMENT BY JOYCE KOUPAL

NATIONAL DIRECTOR

 

Proposition 15 was won a week ago when the three nuclear safety bills passed the California legislature. No longer will the Atomic industry be able to brush safety problems under the rug.

 

The beauty of the initiative process is that it holds elected officials accountable. When the process works correctly citizens do not have to spend $1 million dol­lars to provide sixty—second slogans to the public.

 

People’s Lobby commends the legislature for its res­ponse to the citizen initiated nuclear safety laws, and the thousands of citizens who worked so hard to make California government responsive through the initiative process.