Misusing taxpayer dollars for campaigns

Four of the 12 measures on California’s November ballot were placed there by the Legislature.
Let’s assume that legislators had also appropriated $100 million in taxpayers’ money for campaigns to persuade voters to approve the four. It would have been an outrageous and likely illegal misappropriation of public funds under several laws.
Using public funds to pass ballot measures is also illegal at the local level. Government Code Section 54964, for instance, forthrightly de