Here’s how to vote on tomorrow’s state ballot initiatives: No. No. No. No. No. No.
6 No’s.
My Message to California voters. Grover Cleveland
Vote against all of them. Terminate the Governator’s bogus reform. The whole thing is a fraud.
The only one that really matters is Prop. 1A, which would jack up our taxes another $16 billion by extending recent tax hikes another 2 years. As if Arnold didn’t tax us enough already! We have the highest state sales and income taxes in the known universe. Taxes need to be CUT, not raised. Click here to read more.
Hi Tony! I enjoy your posts as always 🙂 I am voting NO on all of the Props except 1F (the salary increase for elected officials). I read up on this and apparently people are voting NO on 1F to see what the elected officials do in tough, economic times. If they give themselves a raise then they are blackballed, but I think that’s too risky. I think they will give themselves a raise at our expense, but do you have any other reasoning why I should vote No on 1f?
This is what I read:
Proposition 1F. Elected Officials’ Salaries. Prevents Pay Increases During Budget Deficit Years.
Encourages balanced state budgets by preventing elected members of the Legislature and statewide constitutional officers, including the Governor, from receiving pay raises in years when the state is running a deficit.
Back in February, the Governor and Democrats needed one more Republican vote to get their budget passed. Republican Senator Abel Maldonado was the hold out who offered his vote for the right price. Maldonado’s price was three constitutional amendments and a tax cut. The most interesting amendment of the three was for an Open Primary, but a vote on that will have to come at a later date. The least objectionable amendment and the one that made it on this ballot was Prop 1F. Proposition 1F, if passed, would not allow a pay increase for state legislators while the state is running a deficit.
This is a lightweight proposition which will not change a thing. A yes vote or a no vote won’t mean much. But we recommend a No Vote because we want to see what the individual legislators do when the rest of the state is suffering. Taking a pay raise in a suffering economy will give testimony to the character and intent of our politicians.
Thanks Tony…see you at the polls!
OK Jill, see you at the polls! Thanks for the compliment.
I’m commenting far too late, but “risky”? Really? Where’s the risk? Officials giving themselves pay raises would be shameful and disgusting, but it wouldn’t have a significant, material effect on common people apart from pissing them off. A good thing, I should think.