June 3rd Election - How are you voting?

[Matthew]

Anyone made up their mind already? Since most of these are just primaries I really only care to learn about the propositions. Here is what we will be voting on.

United States Representative

William Durston, Democratic
Dan Lungren, Republican
Douglas Tuma, Libertarian
Dina Padilla, Peace and Freedom

State Assembly

James Cook, Democratic
Alyson Huber, Democratic
David Sander, Republican
Jack Sieglock, Republican
Paul Hegyi, Republican
Janice Bonser, Libertarian

State Senate

Anselmo Chavez, Democratic
Dave Cox, Republican

State Propositions

Prop 98
Prop 99

Party Committee

Tony Perez, Democratic
Kathryn L. Gerwig, Democratic
Janine M. Almandos, Democratic
Katherine E. Maestas, Democratic
Helen Moore, Democratic
Robert Dawa, Democratic
Nancy Nhan Bui, Democratic
Donald J. Tosaw, Jr., Democratic
Dennis Baylis, Democratic

Sirgute Morgan, Republican
Jared Andrew Kopp, Republican
William J. Tolson, Republican
Garth Eisenbeis, Republican
Tony Andrade, Republican
George J. Bradshaw, Republican
Angela Marie Azevedo, Republican
Susan Blake, Republican
Carl E. Brickey, Republican
Teri Lawrence, Republican
Bob Berger, Republican

Rebecca A. Markussen, Green
Sheila Laracy, Green
Jeff Kravitz, Green
Jonathan Scott Verhoef, Green
Randy John Hicks, Green
Todd Flinders, Green
Jared Laiti, Green
Crescent Vellucci, Green

[LisaT]

I haven't even looked at the props - guess I have some homework to do.

[akulasquirrel]

I have yet to look at the props myself, so I'll be doing some homework in that area soon.

As to HOW I'm going to be voting... it'll be with a ballot!

[Wilbur]

I'll be voting yes on 99 and no on 98.

[Matthew]

Originally Posted by Wilbur

I'll be voting yes on 99 and no on 98.

Why? So far I am leaning the other way around. I am still trying to sort out the facts between these props. I am looking at who supports what props.


Prop 98 endorsements

• California Republican Party
• Libertarian Party of California
• State Senator Tom McClintock

Yes on Proposition 98

Prop 99 endorsements

• Speaker of the House, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi
• U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstei
• U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

No on Prop 98 - Prop. 99 Supporters

[Birdieman]

Originally Posted by Wilbur

I'll be voting yes on 99 and no on 98.

What a suprise. I'll be voting for all the members of the GREEN party.

[Wilbur]

My first instinct is to vote no on both props and force the Legislature to do its job. Proposition after Proposition turns out to not be what the voters thought, on the basis of some soundbites and internet chain mails, they were voting for. Like the way the main beneficiaries of Prop. 13 turned out to be commercial property owners, who never die and rarely sell, so their property never gets reassessed on transfer.

What turns me off about 98 is the rent control Trojan Horse. As per the usual cynical special interest perversion of the initiative process, the real money and driving force behind 98 is the landlords. Rent control is not a good policy. I was involved in the rent control wars of the 80s, representing the apartment industry in the Legislature and the California and U.S. Supreme Courts. But I don't like the idea of sneaking it into an initiative which people will vote for out of their justifiable anger over the Kelo decision upholding the taking of people's homes in a non- blighted area so a developer can build a shopping mall and produce more taxes for the county supervisors to spend. And I think it unwise to cast one particular approach to phasing in vacancy decontrol in stone by initiative, which makes it difficult if not impossible to adjust the approach as market experience teaches new lessons.

99 deals with the Kelo problem which is what the voters want to deal with, without a Christmas tree of other sub voce agendas tacked on.

Both Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson have spoken out against 98 as going too far and endangering not just private development masquerading as "redevelopment," which 99 will take care of, but also public works projects. Central Valley farmers have split off from the Farm Bureau, a rare fracture of solidarity, because they see the risk to water projects.

[pingtheduck]

Thanks for explaining that Wilbur.

[hautemomma]

Barbara Boxer.... oh my. Read the 'update' to this story. thats the entertaining part.

Stephen Elliott: Shame On Barbara Boxer - Politics on The Huffington Post

[Luke]

Isn't there a fair argument that Prop. 98, since it covers both eminent domain and rent control, violates the one subject rule of Article II, Section 8(d) of the California Constitution: "An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect"?