When I heard that they were going to have these special initiatives, I just shook my head. I am so tired of these people trying to “nickel and dime” us for every d**n thing! And if I hear one more teacher talk about how cutting spending will hurt the “children”, I am going to scream! I live in Los Angeles and let me tell you…it’s pathetic.

I’m ashamed I ever voted for him. I’m just glad that he’s more associated with the Democrats and it’s giving Meg Whitman a boost amongst her potential Democratic challenger.

All I see on TV is ‘Yes on’ ads…it’s going to be a tough battle….word of mouth is what we need to do…Tell your friends and family..

NO…1a through 1f

I’ve already sent in my mail-in ballot and voted a resounding, “NO!” on ALL of the Propositions! They are written specifically to be confusing and misleading. California has too many bad laws as it is. We don’t need any more.

Don’t forget to support the recall efforts underway on some of these turncoats, I mean legislators.

Maldonado should be at the top of the list.

the nationwide ones. It was created by KFI640 radio hosts John and Ken. The Left-Angeles Times chose to cover 12 protestors atthe Federal Builing that Saturday. But at the rally there were 15,000 people! And there were 20 to 40 yr olds and moms with babes in strollers, And Dad and Democrats and Republicans etc. It was fabulous. and now there is another one coming up to
support No on A-F

The only bright spot here is that so far, the initiatives are losing. Even my mother, a “never vote for any one but a democrat” is voting no on the initiatives. But this could change once the union money starts saturating the airwaves. And the bottom line, no matter how angry democrats say they are about taxes, every single elected state democrat will be re-elected, every single democrat responsible for the mess this state is in will be re-elected. Some turn coat republicans will lose, but they are inconsequential anyway.

There is such a disconnect here. When I remind my liberal brother, who complains about high taxes and illegal immigration, that it is is liberal democrat policies that have bankrupted this state, he tells me I’m wrong and I just don’t understand how government works. My fear is that the majority of people in this country see things just the way he does. This country is doomed to follow California’s example, especially with the little tyrant in the white house.

It’s up to the legislature to come up with a budget that makes the hard decisions – cut spending or face the heat from raising taxes. Voting these propositions down will send a message for the legislature that tax increases and illegal borrowing (if the courts really wanted to enforce the CA constitution rather than wink at these “borrowings”) are not acceptible.

Besides, even if these measure pass, the state still has a growing budget deficit to deal with.

Now I recognize that someone may argue that voting these measures down will lead to the next step by the Democrats of putting an initiative on the 2010 budget to end the 2/3rds vote on budgets, which would open the door to massive tax increases and remove that last bit leverage the Republican Party has in the state (barring an unlikely conservative Republican win in the 2010 governor’s race).

But the left is going to put such a initiative on the ballot anyway – even if the propositions pass – so this is a red herring. And also, elections have consequences – if the people succumb to deception and vote for fiscal apocalypse and one-party dictatorship, so be it. I just hope I could find a way to leave the state in time in that case.

I think all the initiative-created special funds in the CA budget are absurd, and so is the supermajority rule (heck, that CA has never been broken up into three or four smaller states is absurd, but that’s another story…), but I’m still voting against this set of sham propositions.

Rep. McClintock favors 1D and 1E. I can buy that, though I disagree with giving the Democrats cover right now.

He agrees with me on the rest, it seems, and even makes another point against 1F though: 1F gives legislators incentive to raise taxes to raise their own salaries.