On SF: I had the experience of seeing a SF City Council ballot (or was it Supervisors - don’t remember) — but the number of factions both fascinated and disgusted me — the City is Ungovernable in my opinion. Every faction gets a piece of the pie and they DO hand it out for voter support.
the Yes on Prop 19 people said they will bring this back every year until it passes. And during a Presidential election they will probably win. If they’d done it in 08 it would be law with all the youth vote.
But I am most concerned about Prop 13 (70’s Prop tax initiative) — Brown has already said he is going to attack the Commercial property side of it — and if he succeeds in making any inroads to Prop 13 — you know what is next.
Yup, the attack on commercial side of Prop 13 has been hinted at for quite a while; and now is probably too tempting of an idea for the anti-business CA libs to leave alone. They can no longer resist. Their brilliance will be shown in just how artfully they pull yet another pillar of busines viability out from CA business creation.
IMO the real damage to CA will be from prop 23, the (failed) one that wanted to hold AB32 (= LSD-induced global warming insanity) in abeyance until the unemp levels fgto back down to 5.5%. Over and above the 25+% rise in power and fuel costs this is sure to create, this is one absolutely enormous, onerous piece of goofballism.
But not to worry nor to be too picky, CA voted upon itself 2-3-4 weapons of mass economic suicide, and we’ll apparently just have to watch the movie of CA’s destruction. I will be watching it from somewhere else. I felt and feel bad about it, having lived here for 40 years, but CA is cooked and that’s all there is to it. In 6-8 years, this entire state will look like little Tijuana except for armed enclaves.