Nielsen advocated for the importance of a two thirds vote over a simple majority, and opposed authorizing cities, counties, and special districts to lower the required vote threshold from two thirds to a simple majority vote, for a parcel tax.
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen expressing strong opposition to Senate Bill 9, which passed the Assembly Floor on a minimum party-line vote. SB 9 would allow inmates, who were juveniles when they committed a special circumstances crime that would have resulted in the death penalty sentence for an adult;...