 Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers negotiated their own ballot plan over the weekend after failing to convince a tough-on-crime coalition to withdraw its efforts to reform Proposition 47 from the ballot. The progressive ballot measure, approved by 60 percent of state voters in 2014, which reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors to help address overcrowding in jails, and which expanded the state's investment in drug and mental health treatment.