Okay, here are my recommendations on the various Propositions on the California ballot Tuesday, with comments where I have any. In general, I have the philosophy that unless I have a strong feeling for, or knowledge about, a proposition, I'm opposed to it until or unless something convinces me otherwise. Mostly, they are special actions by special interests to enact something the majority doesn't know or care about, and if there's a strong emotional groundswell, it probably just means it's exceptionally bad (see 1978 and Prop 13 which lowered property taxes and fucked up the entire California economy ever since!)
Prop 1A High Speed Rail NO
Good Issue, bad approach, wrong time
Prop 2 Feed Animal Protection No opinion (so probably NO)
Don't know enough to make an informed decision, feel-good ads make me nervous
Prop 3 Children's Hospital Bonds NO
Good issue, good approach, wrong time
Prop 4 Parental Abortion Notification NO
When are the anti-abortion nuts going to realize they've lost?
Prop 5 Drug Offender Rehab Plan YES
Good idea, maybe bad approach, but we need to do SOMETHING- start this then amend it if needed, but get some movement going
Prop 6 Law Enforcement Funding/Tough on Crime Scam NO
Prop 7 Renewable Energy Mandate NO
GREAT IDEA, horrible approach
Prop 8 Gay Marriage Constitutional Rights Grab by Mormons Scam NO
Don't get me start on how bad this one is! We'll be here til election day!
Prop 9 Victim's Family's Rights Bill NO
Sorry, in the criminal process, victims don't have rights, they're non-participants.
If they want rights, that's why there's a CIVIL court system!
Prop 10 Alternative Fuel Bond Bill NO
Boone Pickens doesn't need MY money, I need his!
Prop 11 Redistricting Reform YES
See arguments for 5- GREAT IDEA, iffy approach, but dammit, we need to start
somewhere.
Prop 12 Veterans' Mortgage Bond YES
Okay idea, should be zero cost in long term
The one prop I would vote for, no matter when offered or who proposed it, is a proposition that would banish the initiative and proposition forever!!!!!
2 comments:
why do you think prop 7 is a good idea but a bad approach?
I don't know enough of the specifics to speak at great length or depth about it, but reading the pro and anti arguments, it seemed to me that the prop as written would benefit the big companies (primarily the utilites) at the expense of the smaller companies that are, currently, the backbone of the burgeoning industry. In general, my thinking on propositions is that they are (usually) a bad approach to a (at least a kernel of a) good idea. They tend to be written by special interests for the benefit of THAT special interest;very rarely for the general benefit of all concerned. This, it appears to me, is the case with 7.
All that said, I don't have hard data that this is the case, just (to quote the Decidererer) a gut feeling.
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