For Governor: Angelides. Wouldn't it be nice to have a governor who isn't a complete embarrassment? Who, in fact, cares (and has spent a lot of time thinking) about solving the state's problems? Who is motivated by a sense of social justice?
Ah, well...a man can dream.
Now, the propositions:
- 1A: Guarantees transportation's share of the budget. No. It might be a good thing, but I think this is a stupid way to govern.
- 1B: Transportation bond. Yes.
- 1C: Housing and shelter bond. Yes.
- 1D: Public education bond. Yes.
- 1E: Flood prevention bond. Yes. The bonds are all endorsed by both Angelides and Schwarzenegger. The fact that their outcome is in doubt illustrates the degraded depths to which anti-tax fundamentalists have dragged political discourse.
- 83: Sex offendor monitoring. No. Tough-on-crime posturing that exploits fears of child-molesting strangers.
- 84: Authorizing bonds for clean water and conservation. Yes.
- 85: Parental notification. Hell no. They have a hell of a lot of nerve for trying again, considering how badly they were shot down last time.
- 86: Cigarette tax. Yeah, I guess so. I have enough smoking friends to be a little ambivalent about this one.
- 87: Oil tax to fund alternative energy. Yes. This is the one that both Gore and Clinton have been stumping for, while the oil companies have funded a huge campaign against it. You decide.
- 88: Parcel tax for education funding. Yes.
- 89: Clean campaign money. Yes. This is public funding of campaigns with an interesting incentive built in: if one candidate opts out, the other gets funding equivalent to whatever he or she spends.
- 90: 'Takings' initiative. Hell no. The worst thing on the ballot this year. It would require state and local government to compensate property owners for any regulations that might potentially limit potential speculative use of their property--in other words, it would eviscerate state and local level land-use regulations. Very convenient for the real estate developers.
[That's all, folks]
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