On account of I read the invaluable Calitics website, I know the numbers of ten of the upcoming initiatives before my rightwing nemesis Brother Larry does. And so I share:
Prop 18 is the $11 billion Water Bond, which I’ve come to believe is a big scam that mainly benefits giant agribusiness – even though Jose Solorio and Dianne Feinstein are huge boosters. NO!
Prop 19 decriminalizes, regulates, and taxes pot. YEAH MAN.
Prop 20 expands the redistricting we approved in 2008’s Prop 11 to Congressional races. I say, let’s wait and see how Prop 11 works out, it hasn’t even gone into effect yet. NO.
Prop 21 is another great YES. Your vehicle registration fee goes up $18 – WAIT, WAIT, you’re not listening – directly funding state parks, maintaining them and keeping them open as in the pre-Arnold days, AND if you have a registered vehicle you get into any State Park free of charge!
Prop 22 YES – bans Sacramento from raiding our local (city/county) funds!
Prop 23 would repeal AB 32 – HELL NO, I will go to the mat with any of you for AB 32, especially you misinformed fools who claim it will cost jobs. BY THE WAY this initiative is nearly entirely funded by TEXAS OIL COMPANIES.
Prop 24 – YES! – closes some corporate tax loopholes that cost us $1.7 billion a year. Expect big corporations to drown us in SOME kinda scare stories over this all Fall.
Prop 25 – Majority Rule instead of 2/3 to pass a budget, as civilized states do. Totally yes, come on. This is NOT Majority Rule to raise taxes, don’t worry your little conservative heads about that. Just look at what this state has to go through each year at budget time, including right now.
Prop 26 – need 2/3 to raise “fees” like we do for taxes. I say no, you may disagree, I’ll give you a pass on that.
Prop 27 would reverse the previously-mentioned redistricting Prop 11 from 2008. Again, I say let’s give Prop 11 time to see how it works out, so I say NO (the only one I disagree with Robert Cruickshank on.)
SO, Vern says:
Yes on 19, 21, 22, 24, and 25; No on 18, 20, 23, 26, and 27.
Let the propaganda wars begin!
Hey Vern, thanks for the update!
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Golytely, glad I could help support you. 🙂
Hey Vern,
That would make you Larry’s Left Wing Nemesis, uh? Ha.
Prop 18. Hell No. Just get some water from Arizona which comes from Colorado that
California steals from anyway.
Prop 19. No way maaaaan!
Prop 20. No.
Prop 21. Hell yeah, maaaan!
Prop 22. Easy one. Without a doubt, a big FAT CAT, I mean FAT YES!
Prop 23. Do not know about this.
Prop 24. Yes. Just say ‘NO’ to scary stories come this fall.
Prop 25. Yes.
Prop 26. Unsure, undecided.
Prop 27. No way Jose! Oh, wait. This is for California? Not Colorado? OH! My bad. Never mind!
~BigBenFactor 😉
BigBenFactor, did you really mean NO on decriminalizing pot? You don’t sound like that kind of CAT!
Ha! Vern,
I have not read the prop. 19, but I do not know if there is a penalty in place for those who abuse the use of pot.
If I remember right, a group did that in Denver, for medical purpose. I think the same group is trying to do the same in Colorado.
Now, I am against smoking of any kind. Many smoker do not listen to the signs ” No smoking 15 feet from door” etc, and they smoke within 15 feet anyway. I live in an apartment and am sandwiched between two smokers who do not smoke in their own apt. but smoke outside, and their smoke breeze right in my apartment many times through my fan, open door, etc.
Pot or tobacco, I say No to it as it bothers me. A guy stood outside a door that I enter in a building, I walked by him as he blew smoke in my face, not thinking about how rude it was.
No to all kinds of tobacco. Nothing to do with CAT in this case. CAT are money grabbing corp. or people.
No offense. I am anti-smoker. I once seek a roommate that does not smoke, he convinced me he will smoke outside. Once he became comfortable, he started to smoke indoors as I was finished cooking my meal and was about to eat. I asked him if he could not smoke while I eat. He stormed off.
However, I won’t campaign against it as I am from Colorful Colorado, number one leanest State in the country. 😀
Medical marijuana? Allowed to smoke in the hospital rooms?
My thoughts only.
~BBF
Anywhere near Centennial Colorado? My cousin Rebecca Maclellan is on the City Council there.
Interesting. I am in Lakewood. About 15 to 20 drive from Centennial. She represents District 3.
I just had a college graduation ceremony there in May. It is a pretty place there, I tell ya.
~BBF
As much as I think 19, 21, and 24 are good for California I will vote no and urge a no vote on all of the above! I will not sign a petition or proposition again. They are written deceptively and campaigned for deceptively and I think the best way to not get fooled again is to just say NO. The idea that these are for the common man is ridiculous, they are a way the moneyed interests can sidestep the legislative process. Well screw that!
OMG, someone gets it.
Always vote no on the lier prop’s.
No matter of wonderful the new Prop 22 is, the old Prop 22 from 2000 was so ugly that I do not think my body will allow me to physically vote “Y”.