The California Voters speak - loudly
Heh... The election results are in from yesterday's special election and boy howdy have the voters ever spoken...
From the
California Secretary of State's office:
- 1A "Rainy Day" Budget Stabilization Fund 34.1% Yes 65.9% No
- 1B Education Funding. Payment Plan. 37.4% Yes 62.6% No
- 1C Lottery Modernization Act 35.4% Yes 64.6% No
- 1D Children's Services Funding 34.3% Yes 65.7% No
- 1E Mental Health Funding 33.6% Yes 66.4% No
- 1F Elected Officials Salaries 73.9% Yes 26.1% No
Line item by line item:
1A - Increase the size of the state's emergency "rainy day" fund
BUT allow the state to tap into it on an arbitrary basis (ie: pull them out of the financial hole they are in)
1B - Major funding increase to Education but when you read the text of the proposition, this money goes to the teachers union. Bad idea.
1C - allows the state to borrow up to $5B from future lottery funds to balance the 2009-2010 budget.
1D - "redirects" (love that word -- steals is more like it) $608 Million from the California Children and Families Program placing it in the state General Fund.
1E - same as above except $230 Million and Mental Health Care programs.
1F - 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.
Big government needs to be Terminated...
Posted by DaveH at May 20, 2009 8:58 PM
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