California proposal would sideline Michael Weinstein, a prolific ballot measure player

California’s ballot wars have often featured monied interest groups and their high paid political mercenaries taking each other on with a veritable carpet-bombing of expensive TV ads. But a ballot measure like this — one to outlaw a single person — is highly unusual. It dispenses with pretense and puts the target right on Weinstein’s back, with supporters unveiling an early November 2024 slogan: “Stop the Weinstein scam.”

Leading the charge is the California Apartment Association, the nation’s largest statewide association for rental owners and managers. Among those joining…