I’m still shoveling on the ‘Future of the Democrats’ post (there’s got<\/b> to be a pony in there somewhere…), and realized that I need to cover the California propositions …<\/p>\n
Here’s the full list and a brief summary, along with my quick position. I’ll follow up with an in-depth look at them as time permits this week.<\/p>\n
For more information, I’ll recommend two sources: The League of Women Voter’s ‘Smart Voter<\/a>‘ site, and the UC Berkeley IGS site<\/a>. If you live in Los Angeles County, as I do, check out the Los Angeles County Bar’s Judicial Candidate Evaluations<\/a> as well.Here are my recommendations:<\/p>\n 1A – Restricts state government’s ability to swing sales tax revenues away from local governments; YES<\/p>\n 59 – Constitutional amendment setting out a ‘right’ of public access to government records and proceedings; YES<\/p>\n 60 – Limits open primaries (the parties counter to Prop 62); NO<\/p>\n 60A – Designates that the proceeds from surplus property sales should go to paying down bonds; NO<\/p>\n 61 – $750 Million in bonds to build, expand, equip, and furnish children’s hospitals; NO<\/p>\n 62 – ‘Open’ primaries, in which the two top vote-getters in the primary will meet in the general, regardless of party; YES<\/p>\n 63 – Expands mental health services by taxing the incomes of those making over $1 million; NO<\/p>\n 64 – Limits the ability of attorneys and plaintiffs who are not actually harmed to sue; YES<\/p>\n 65 – Similar to 1A, it’s backers have thrown their support behind 1A; NO<\/p>\n 66 – Limits the applicability of ‘three strikes’; NO<\/p>\n 67 – Funds emergency medical services with a telephone tax; YES<\/p>\n 68 – Tribal gambling initiative #1; NO<\/p>\n 69 – Authorizes the gathering and retention of DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony to help create a state DNA database; STUCK IN THE MIDDLE<\/p>\n 70 – Tribal gambling initiative #2; NO<\/p>\n 71 – Stem cell research; NO<\/p>\n 72 – Mandates that certain California employers provide health care coverage; STUCK IN THE MIDDLE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A.L. discusses California’s 2004 referendum propositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}