{"id":2993,"date":"2002-11-04T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2002-11-04T11:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2002-11-04T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2002-11-04T11:33:05","slug":"all-ballot-issues-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"ALL BALLOT ISSUES ALL THE TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other initiatives are:<br \/>\n<b>46 (housing- YES)<\/b> As I discussed <a href=\u0094 http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000399.html#000399\u0094 taregt=\u0094browser\u0094>here<\/a>, the housing crisis is real, and while these bonds will get spent and won\u0092t solve the problem, a few tens of thousands of people will be better housed because we spent this money.<br \/>\n<b>47 (school bonds \u0096 NEUTRAL)<\/b> I know that our public school infrastructure is decaying (I see it every day at my son\u0092s schools, which are relatively <u>good<\/u>), but I\u0092m uncertain about spending this money now. On one hand, the needs are real, as with housing above; on the other many of the school districts (L.A. Unified) haven\u0092t done a very good job with the money they\u0092ve been given already. I\u0092m probably going to toss a coin tomorrow morning on this one.<br \/>\n<b>48 (combine courts \u0096 YES)<\/b> This makes ministerial changes to state law to reflect the fact that all 58 of California\u0092s counties have combined their Municipal and Superior courts in an effort to streamline and cut costs. This simply changes the state law to eliminate references to \u0091Municipal\u0092 courts when there aren\u0092t any.<br \/>\n<b>49 (afterschool care \u0096YES)<\/b> As noted <a href=\u0094 http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000403.html#000403\u0094 target=\u0094browser\u0094>below<\/a> this is about positioning Ah-nold to run for Governor (which I think would actually be kinda fun\u0085he\u0092s not an idiot), and incidentally may improve the lives of a few hundred thousand kids. So I\u0092m for it.<br \/>\n<b>50 (water bonds \u0096 NO)<\/b> I\u0092d support 2\/3 of the projects in this (excluding the purchases of wetlands in a private and negotiated process from major developers), but the other 1\/3 just isn\u0092t palatable at a time when the budget is as crunched as it really is.<br \/>\n<b>51 (\u0091transportation\u0092 bonds \u0096 NO)<\/b> This is a scam, and the people responsible (yes, Irvine Mayor Larry Agran, this means you) ought to be ashamed.<br \/>\n<b>L.A. County A (Museum and Parks Bonds \u0096 NO)<\/b> I\u0092d love to see a cool new Rem Koolhaas L.A. County museum. Some group of rich people should get together and fund it. At a time when we can\u0092t afford decent schools, police, or a health system, building monuments to high culture (or cathedrals, for that matter) ought to be on the back burner.<br \/>\n<b>L.A. County B (Healthcare \u0096 YES)<\/b> Vote early and often for this one, or in fact your children may die. It is not only my local Level 1 Trauma Center, it is one of three for the entire region. The health finance systems in this country are broken. We need to fix them. While we\u0092re fixing them, we ought to keep the hospitals open. Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other initiatives are: 46 (housing- YES) As I discussed here, the housing crisis is real, and while these bonds will get spent and won\u0092t solve the problem, a few tens of thousands of people will be better housed because we spent this money. 47 (school bonds \u0096 NEUTRAL) I know that our public school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}