On April 27th, I wrote about the Schools Over Stadiums strategy of appealing the court’s ruling that their referendum needed rewriting in order to pass legal muster. Since then things haven’t gotten a lot better, with the state Supreme Court affirming the judge’s decision just 6 weeks prior to the deadline for submitting over 102,000 signatures.
Faced with this verdict, Schools Over Stadiums announced it will defer until November, 2026 its quest to get a referendum on the ballot that, if passed, would block the A’s from using $380M of tax payer money towards a new stadium.