SACRAMENTO – State Senator George Runner (R-Antelope Valley), Mike Reynolds (father of Three Strikes) and San Bernardino County Supervisor Gary Ovitt today announced that Secretary of State Debra Bowen has qualified a statewide anti-gang initiative for the November ballot.

"Californians are fed up with gangs and the violence and the destruction they inflict on our neighborhoods," said Runner, one of the measure's authors. "Now California voters have a chance to do what the liberal Legislature has failed to do: Pass true gang reform."

In order to qualify for the ballot, the Safe Neighborhoods Act needed 433,971 valid petition signatures, which is equal to 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the November 2006 General Election. The initiative proponents submitted 789,668 signatures in late April.

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