If you slogged through this early Monday morning’s traffic on the 405, you probably saw some of our Freeway Blogging Banners for Proposition 15 – this time we centered them in Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa, where the traffic seems heaviest on Monday mornings.
Freeway Blogging is Asymmetric Warfare.
The forces arrayed to prevent this essential reform have unlimited resources. The lobbyists’ union, known as the IGA, has dumped tens of thousands on consultants Schubert Flint, pollsters Probolsky & Associates (sounds like a Red-Faced County gravy train huh?) and you can see all the sleazy slate mailers they paid to be on here – $1000 each – including that so-called “Democratic” one we blew out of the water on Saturday.
All the grass-roots forces of goodness and light have is our own time, energy, and:
- $60 for a 1000-foot roll of butcher paper from Garden Grove’s “USA Toys” (will last for a year of Freeway Blogging!)
- a slide projector so we can trace nice letters
- a few cans of paint and brushes
- a couple rolls of transparent packing tape for re-inforcing the fragile paper
- a hole-puncher and a big jar of plastic ties for attaching to all the chain link fences on the bridges of this freeway-spangled county.
This is what democracy looks like...
What’s “fair” about forcing taxpayers to pay for political campaigns? Prop 15 is leftist nonsense that this state cannot afford.
Not that Rick ever comes back after leaving his little droppings, BUT…
I’m sure the rest of you know, if you’ve read anything about this, that this is not funded by taxpayer money, but by raising lobbyists’ annual registration fee from $12.50 to $350.
So… FAIR!
Vern, You missed the Bill Hunt freeway blogging….170 Banners posted last night!…er so I’m told
Yer pulling my leg bigmarkod.
Freeway Blogging for or against a candidate seems kinda cheap. Freeway Blogging for election reform…makes sense somehow.
Vern,
After sending you the exact language of Prop 15, the page number (73) in the Voter Guide where that language can be found, and the Legislative Counsel’s analysis warning that the lobbyist tax is unconstitutional, it’s disappointing that you continue to mislead your readers by saying the lobbyist registratration fee will pay for Prop 15’s publicly financed elections. Advocate for taxpayer-financed elections all you want, but at least tell voters what they’re voting for. That frustration aside, I’ve enjoyed our little debate and look forward to our next battle.
…you continue to mislead your readers by saying the lobbyist registratration fee will pay for Prop 15’s publicly financed elections.
In one guy’s opinion it could be ruled unconstitutional, in many others’ it won’t be. The lobbyist fee is VERY reasonable – lower than in many other states – and is earmarked only to the election of their boss, the Secretary of State – so in two ways it’s very different and more defensible than lobbyist fees that were ruled unconstitutional in other states.
I’m not advocating for taxpayer-funded elections, not this year. Not a good time. Economy is still sucking if you notice. In the future, I think it could be a great idea (although possibly a hard sell.)
I’ve enjoyed our little debate and look forward to our next battle.
Who knows, maybe we’ll be on the same side of an issue some day. Weirder stuff has happened!