Posted on 01/16/2008 1:58:16 PM PST by calcowgirl
Prop. 91 Transportation Funding Protection: YES!
This measure flatly prohibits Sacramento from raiding our highway taxes to paper over their budget deficits. When a watered-down version of Prop. 91 was adopted by the legislature, its sponsors dropped this measure after it qualified. Nevertheless, if you want to genuinely protect our transportation taxes from being raided, Prop 91 is the Real McCoy.
Prop. 92 Guaranteed Funding for Community Colleges: NO!
This can best be described as a Prop. 98 for community colleges – guaranteeing them a growing level of funding from the state’s tax revenues regardless of their actual attendance, their performance or the state’s fiscal condition and priorities. If you like straight-jackets, you’ll love Prop. 92.
Prop. 93 Term Limits: NEUTRAL.
Current term limits are a maximum of 14 years in the legislature: six in the Assembly and eight in the Senate – which is why you see so much office-hopping. Prop. 93 reduces the maximum to 12 years in the legislature, but allows them to be served in the same house. Since I’ve only served eight years in the Senate, Prop. 93 would give me one final term; if it fails I must retire this year. Because I have a conflict of interest, I’m staying out if it.
Propositions 94-97 Indian Gaming Compacts: YES!
These propositions ratify the compacts that allow four tribes to expand their casinos. I’m not a gambler, but it’s none of government’s business how people spend their money. I’m tired of government restrictions on enterprise, and I’m tired of government telling us what we can and can’t do. And our economy desperately needs the new jobs and investment.
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We discussed this earlier cowgirl ... and I think Tom and I are on the same page.
I feel vindicated!
Have a great day!
Looks like Tom would also be booted along with Perata and Fabian.. bummer
War is Hell.. 2010 and before looms tho as well.
Ya mean you don’t want 17,000 new slot machines?
Remember this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164834/posts?page=15#15
For very different reasons, IIRC.
I appreciate Tom trying to take the Neutral stance,, he has received monies from them in the past and may again in the future.. so have a lot of other politicos.
He’s neutral on the term limits. He’s libertarian on the increased gambling (recommending YES votes).
This is the exact reason I agree. Why not have the $$ here in CA instead of in NV or elsewhere.
That proposal for the college guarantees is the same thing they did with the public school system. Now they can’t get out of it and it makes no difference whether or not the state has the money. The public schools still get their raises......guaranteed.
Thanks, hate to see him go.. He’s a trooper, he’ll understand. ;-)
Something about the proliferation of Indian gambling just rubs me.. I understand the ‘enterprise’ concept , I admit I am not a big gambler either.
If it was tribes running the casinos, I’d probably be more supportive. But it’s the Las Vegas gang that builds and operates most all of them now and they avoid law enforcement by hiding behind Indian sovereignty. If the question of legalizing gambling was put on the ballot and Californians voted for it, that would be a different thing. As it was sold, they were talking about small casinos to benefit the tribal communities — not huge developments larger than Caesar’s Palace run by Las Vegas with the profits going to shareholders of the huge gaming interests.
Exactly!
flag for later.
BTTT
I don’t understand why the tribes feel the need to ask permission to do squat. Are they a sovereign nation(s), or not?
To run a successful gambling and entertainment operation, ya’d almost need a mob-like mentality in California..
From one “cal” to another —
I’m glad to see Tom come out in favor of Prop 91, as I was planning to vote on it, based upon my reading of the proposed law. However, I’ve seen so much opposition to it, that I’m pleased to see my take on the measure is the same as mine.
I’d almost be willing to vote yes on 93 to keep Tom in the legislature, but the Speaker and Prez of the Assembly and Senate have insulted my intelligence with this one. Yeah - down 12 years from 14 but resets or extends the clock for the two Big Cheeses, who think we’re a bunch of idiots.
Here is a good overview of the history of how we got to where we are.
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