Monthly Archive for California
California Stories Posted in December 2007
Opinion: Dan Walters: Odd allies, confusion bend vote
Category: Gaming · State: California · Source: Sacramento Bee
As voters begin to focus on the Feb. 5 presidential primary - and especially on the array of non-presidential ballot measures - they'll need a scorecard to follow the players. While all campaigns on ballot measures tend to be misleading, those lining up for and against the Feb. 5 measures are an especially odd collection of bedfellows.
Opinion: Electoral vote proposal a partisan effort to manipulate outcome
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: Capitol Weekly
It’s ba-aaaaack! Like the hockey-masked assailant in the “Friday the 13th” movies that refuses to die, the GOP ballot measure designed to ensure that its presidential candidate wins nearly half of California’s electoral votes has been revived. And it’s got Democratic leaders nervous.
Opinion: The wrong way to reform term limits
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: Los Angeles Times
California's elected officials have failed this year to take care of any pressing state problems -- except their own. No healthcare reform. No prison reform. No solution to the multibillion-dollar budget deficit.
Proposition 92 pits Cabrillo against UC
Category: Education · State: California · Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
A February ballot measure that would deliver a windfall of cash to community colleges has the two higher education communities in Santa Cruz County in opposite corners.
GOP Electoral Measure Won't Make June Ballot
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: Associated Press
A California ballot measure that could give Republicans an edge in next year's presidential campaign by changing the way the state awards its electoral college votes won't make the June primary ballot and is now headed for November, backers said Thursday.
Ballot Box Balancing Act in California Health Care Reform
Category: Healthcare · State: California · Source: California Progressive Report
Mike Zapler of San Jose Mercury News has a downer of an article about the hurdles of winning health care reform on the ballot. He writes about the odds of any ballot measure, especially those with a funded opposition. The history on health reform isn't pretty either. In the early 1990s, two such measures, Prop 166 and Prop 186, got 32% and 27% of the vote, respectively.
AP Exclusive: SF mayor proposes carbon tax to curb global warming
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Associated Press
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is planing to ask voters next year to approve a "carbon tax" on businesses.
Could health care initiative pass?
Category: Healthcare · State: California · Source: San Jose Mercury News
Frustrated by opposition in the Legislature, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to take his health care plan to "the people" next year in the form of a sweeping ballot measure.
Newport sued over city hall ballot
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: Daily Pilot
A local activist suing Newport Beach to keep a measure off the February ballot to decide whether to build the next City Hall next to the central library said Tuesday he hopes a ruling in the matter will come before the end of the year.
Placer is dropping '08 sales tax vote
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: Sacremento Bee
Placer County officials are backing off plans to put a transportation sales tax measure on the 2008 ballot, saying polls show not enough voters support it.
Disclosure of ballot campaign donors sought
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: Los Angeles Times
Backers of two campaigns to change California law are crying foul over donations to their opponents made through nonprofit groups that can hide the origin of the money.
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