Are these voters idiots? Or are they convinced that at some point, the federal government (ie, taxpayers) will wind up bailing out California and all its municipalities because California is “too big to fail”. It’s kind of like Obama promising to bail out anyone with credit card debt over $50,000 as of December 2010, and then being surprised at personal credit card use between now and November.
I don’t know what was done to persuade voters to go for this. I remember when both new stadiums (baseball and football) were built here in Pittsburgh. The mayor of Pittsburgh at the time declared that it won’t cost the citizens anything because most of the money would come from the state. He didn’t mention that the state’s contribution would come from — gasp! — the taxpayers.
And of course, we were told that a new baseball stadium would make the Pirates competitive. Well, the Pirates are now in the cellar and have been since the stadium was built. Guess the new stadium didn’t work out for them.