LOL! Yeah, I remember voters voting something in cali down a few years ago and the courts overturned it anyway.
Part of this could be that the state has lots of cash right now. The current year state budget is projected to have at least a $15 billion surplus.
Some of the talk I heard about this proposition, is that people think we could use some of the tax money we have already paid in, and is sitting in the state bank account, to fund these school renovations, rsther than floating yet another bond issue to do it
This is bullcrap- people love high taxes .
Why do you think they keep voting for tax hiking politicians?
“There is a sense that California isn’t working,” Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney said.
Anyone else picking up that whiff in the air?
The mood against the biggest bond proposal had been growing for months. Part of that mood was whether or not you were for “helping schools”, too many parts of the proposition were at least NOT transparent and at most deceptive about their full and real impact.
Also, voters did not forget - they were reminded by opponents of the proposition - that a number of other state “school bond” issues had been approved in recent years, yet the schools had plenty of funds for outrageous things - like the L.A. school district buying iPads for 400,000 students - and some things those bonds had been borrowed to accomplish were still not done.
Maybe the people of Kalifornia are finally understanding that overtime they vote to fund something that comes out of the State House that it just creates another pool of money for the politicians and their cronies to loot!
My long sad experience in California has been that while it has periodic spasms of conservatism, it drifts relentlessly Leftward. It will continue to do so, until it falls off a cliff.
If they weren’t educating all those illegal kids there would be more than enough money to have the best schools in the country with the best paid teachers.
In the photo that leads the article, it says electrical wires hang from the ceilings. The editors are flat out wrong, those are low voltage network cables, but way to “scare” and “shame” the voters...
I’ve seen many elections where the votes on the propositions turned out mostly conservative, yet the far leftist candidates won. To me, this is a big indicator of vote fraud. The fraudsters do not bother stuffing the ballot box for propositions (the ones they don’t like will be overturned by a radical court), but only for candidates. The vote fraud machine in CA runs very smoothly.
“...as California authorities wade through hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots”
Should we now expect an unexpected reversal of the unexpected results?
“”Voters rejected more than half of the 237 local tax and bond measures on that ballot””
There couldn’t possibly have been that many bond measures/propositions on the recent ballot - they’d still be voting if that was true.