Posted on 09/10/2005 2:05:18 PM PDT by radar101
I've been getting calls about the various ballot propositions for the Special Election.
Here's how I see them:
Proposition 73: Parental Notification for Abortion. If parental consent is required for a child to use a tanning booth or get her ears pierced, shouldn’t parents at least be notified if she’s getting an abortion? YES. Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, this should be the all-time no-brainer.
Proposition 74: Teacher Tenure. Do parents have a right to expect a higher level of competence before a teacher is granted life-time tenure? YES. This modest measure simply increases the teacher probation period from two years to five years.
Proposition 75: Public Employee Union Dues. Should public employees decide for themselves which candidates they will support with their own money? YES. This measure requires that before a public employee union can take money from that employee for political donations, it has to get the employee’s permission.
Proposition 76: State Spending. Should government live within its means? YES. This measure restores the authority that the governor of California had between 1939 and 1983 to make mid-year spending cuts whenever spending outpaces revenue without having to return to the legislature.
Proposition 77: Re-districting. Should voters choose their representatives in legislative districts that are drawn without regard to partisan advantage? YES. The most obvious conflict of interest in government is when politicians choose which voters will get to vote for them by drawing their own legislative district lines. This measure puts a stop to it.
Propositions 78 and 79: Prescription drug discounts. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your pharmacy? NO. These are rival measures, one supported by drug companies and the other by liberal activists – both of which purport to lower drug prices. What they really do is assure that one group of patients gets to pay higher prices to provide subsidized prices for others. There’s no such thing as a free Levitra.
Proposition 80. Electricity Regulation. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your electricity company? NO. This measure locks in monopoly control of your electricity by the bureaucratized utilities and forbids you from ever being able to shop around for the lowest-priced electricity available
Seems sensible.
Yes, it should be a no-brainer. I'd like to see it pass, and then watch as the 9th Circus makes fools out of themselves again by attempting to strike it down. It's situations like this that really make the case for doing away with Roe vs Wade. Overturning that ruling won't outlaw abortion. All it would do is return the matter to state legislatures. And it would be rather difficult for them to prohibit abortion and enforce that prohibition, because women would be still able to go to any number of other states where it would be legal. But what it would do is give states a free hand to enact basic common sense legislation like Proposition 73 above, without being forced to water them down to the point of total ineffectiveness.
Man, I hope McClintock runs for some national office, and soon.
I voted for Tom for Governor and would vote for him no matter what office he ran for. He is the only common sense politician in California.
" Seems sensible" With one exception, (Rape by the parent.)
Then what?
Prop 73 includes a "judicial bypass" will enable that individual to obtain the abortion without parental notification. During this process, the court can review the dangerous factors facing a young girl. If she has been the victim of sexual abuse, whether it is rape, incest or statutory rape, the judge will be able to address the situation.
As the previous law now stands, a minor child possibly as young as 12 years old, may be taken to an abortion clinic by a friend, a teacher, a boyfriend or other interested party, without even the knowledge or consent of her parents. Some of those people might be abusers as well...
Someone help me out...what was the idea behind tenure to begin with? Why should ANYBODY be guaranteed their job no matter what. It's kinda UnAmerican.
Tenure was not instituted as a "job guarantee". Tenure simply said that a teacher could not be dismissed without good cause. Tenure was actually instituted to protect the free flow of ideas, to insure academic freedom. What it has become of course is a bastardized version of the original intent.
I think the definition of "Academic Freedom" has changed dramatically since then. Thanks for the explanation.
Unfortunately, that will render the law largely unenforceable. A girl could then go to a court and make up all kinds of lurid stories about how her parents abused her, and nothing would come of it because her parents wouldn't know anything about it. The pressure would be on the judge to grant the waiver, because if he grants it unjustifiably, nobody would know, because the whole point of the waiver is to protect her confidentiality. But if he doesn't grant it, and it turns out she was telling the truth, it'll come back to bite him. So what that means is that she could tell all these lies, have the abortion, and then go right back to living with the same father she claimed raped her, and nothing at all would come of it.
The more common sense route is to make it so that claims of abuse would trigger an actual investigation, with the girl in protective custody. That of course would preclude her from being able to accuse her parents without them knowing about it, which would effectively prevent them from making up lies about good parents.
Nonetheless, Prop 73 is better than nothing.
Tom's running for Lt. Governor next year. You can support his campaign at:
http://www.tommcclintock.com
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