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LACK OF INITIATIVE

We are a mean bunch out here in California.

We are going to take back our commitment to school kids and to our mental health programs. What we gave, we can take back.

Propositions 1D, 1E ask voters to think again

This is all nonsense of course.

It involves some 0.2% of the state budget and the initiative itself may cost as much as the money being switched around.

The big headline here is the utter nonsense of having the people decide budget issues in the first place. To legislate.

Now we must un-legislate. Or not.

The only reason they are having this initiative is to placate a Republican "traitor" who voted for this year's budget on the contingency that we would review these initiatives.

We are in a bad jam here. A governor who has no power, a legislature that is deadlocked, and an initiative process that engages the most uninformed of the citizens in the process of decisions on "made up", confusing and misleading propositions.

I am totally against initiatives. I vote "NO" routinely as a protest. I will vote "NO" again.

I will probably be in a small minority that votes at all so my vote will count.

One of these Props is a movie star prop. We have several in recent years. Rob Reiner's cigarette tax for kids. So we have Rob running around propounding again. Don't worry meathead, I will vote your way. For a different reason, but your way.

Labels: California, election