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Blue = YES on 67, the Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban, Orange = NO. Can anyone make sense of this?
I just finished a big work assignment and now I’m trying to make sense of the geographic distribution of votes when it comes to Measure 67 (or as we old timers like to call them, “Prop” 67) within the state — and it’s just not making sense to me!
I mean, at first it looks like the counties all along the coast — except for Del Norte, which is spiritually part of neighboring Siskiyou — favored that ban while only Napa, Alpine, and Mono along the Nevada border and the counties just west of Mendocino didn’t. But how do you explain that big orange gap there between LA and and another county two counties down. It lost in Ventura County by 3.4%. Wouldn’t you think that they’d be want to avoid lining up with all of those other counties that have so much less stake in the fate of the oceans and sealife? GET WITH IT, VENTURA COUNTY! What a total embarrassment to you this vote is!
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Um, starting from the Mexico border along the coast and counting north, isn’t that second unlabeled blob the OC ? Isn’t the fourth one Ventura ? Aren’t they the same color meaning BOTH voted “No” ? Wouldn’t that make Ventura slightly less receptive to rocks thrown from OC over the vote, or did I miss something?
(Yes I know there are about 400K mail and provisional OC ballots taking till Saturday (?) to count, while VC’s site says nothing about those types)
I would hope they don’t respond by pointing out their 60.9% turnout vs OC’s 53%
Yes, you missed the ironical jab at OC voters.
I wonder if the anti-plastic bag people know the real coastal pollution problem. It’s plastic water and juice bottles – plus our old friend styrofoam cups.
Of course to know this you’d actually have to go to estuarial environments (like Newport’s Back bay – and see what kind of crap is stuck in the sedge at low tide.
David, unironically, perceived the irony. C’mon, BigBox — the OC results are in the graphic! They just didn’t bear mention in the text. You criticize mature adults for throwing food around the room, not those who can’t be expected to know better.
David, you’re right about the coastal estuaries. The bigger problem with plastic bags is further out into the ocean. I wouldn’t mind going after styrofoam cups — although ONE WOULD THINK that plastic juice and water bottles should be responsive to a bounty on them through recycling. I think that perhaps we’re not doing a good enough job on inducing people to hang on to them.
Uh, OK.
Pretty much. (Seriously, you thought that I just forgot about OC?)
Recently, deciding what to think has become a more complex proposition. Reminding myself that what I see overrules what I think about it. That wasn’t it though.