I just got my absentee ballot today. It's an impressive thing. The first name on the recall candidate list bills himself as a "Middleweight Sumo Wrestler" and with a prime top right hand placement is Mary Carey. Gary Coleman is the name beneath hers. So ... yeah. Well, everything is all filled out execept for Proposition 53. I'll look into it more tomorrow but right now I'm undecided and looking for input. Here's a link with some specifics: http://voterguide.ss.ca.gov/propositions/2-2-prop-53.html So what do you think? Yes? No? Who cares?
I am voting yes. I wish the bill was more specific, but we certainly need to improve the infrastructure.
California is spending way too much on freeways that will carry only half the current traffic a decade from now. Besides, this just creates further limits on how the state can manage the budget, which is limited enough as it is. Certainly there are some things that need fixing, like parts of the water distribution system, but that should be done in the regular budget.
Isn't this the sort of thing that got CA into a fiscal crisis in the first place? There's so much of state revenue set aside for pet projects by previous initiatives that there's no discretion in the budget anymore.
That's pretty much how I see it. I'm voting no for this reason. I found it kind of funny at the recall-candidate debate last week that both McClintock and Schwarzenegger claimed throughout the debate that spending is out of control and they need to cut spending, and then at the end of the debate, both said they were in favor of Prop 53. The borrow-and-spend Republicans showing their colors.
If there hadn't have been a recall, these two propositions would still have been on the ballot, and there still would have been an election. Imagine the turnout that an October election in an off-year would have gotten. And these are for far-ranging issues. It's an embarrassment that they would have wasted money scheduling an election for this crap - put it in front of actual voters, don't try to sneak it through like this. Well, it's still an embarrassment that there's a recall election, but still.
What are you talking about? If the recall hadn't happened, 53 and 54 would have been on the March 2004 ballot. They were in the queue for the "next statewide election," and got added onto the recall ballot because this unexpectedly became the next statewide election. "If Davis didn't want to be recalled, he shouldn't have sucked." -- Dan Loney, June 20, 2003