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The business group looking to repeal a $30 per hour minimum wage for Los Angeles hotel and airport workers failed to secure enough signatures to qualify the proposal for the ballot, city officials said Monday.

Labour's rulebook sets a high bar to entry into the race, as candidates will need the support 80 Labour MPs - 20% of the parliamentary party - to get on the ballot.

Even with the heavy focus on the redistricting ballot measure, gubernatorial candidates were also skittering around the convention, speaking to various caucuses, greeting delegates in the hallways and holding private meetings.

“He really knew his baseball and had a Hall of Fame ballot,” Willman remembers.

Burton and Johnson shaped campaign finance law with a ballot measure permitting political parties to accept unlimited donations, enhancing parties’ power.