PROP Desc ARNIE MCCLINTOCK SHKN SURVEY 73 Teen abort waiting period.............................YES.......YES.............PICK 74 Pub school Teachers Waiting Period....................YES.......YES.............PICK 75 Pub Employee Union Dues Pol Contribs..................YES.......YES.............WINNING 76 State spending limits.................................YES.......YES.............LOSING 77 Redistricting.........................................YES.......YES.............PICK 78 Prescrip Drug Discounts (initiative statute)..........YES.......NO..............WINNING 79 Prescrip Drug Discounts (state-negotiated rebates)....NO........NO..............LOSING 80 Regulation of Electric Service Providers..............NO........NO..............LOSING
Pete Wilson's budget director warns about 76
My analysis of the Legislative Analyst Office's opinion on the consequences of Prop 76
Time to donate to Arnold's effort if you feel so inclined.
McClintock's got pro-prop 75 and 76 ads running on talk radio.
The SHKN Survey is hokie (as was the SurveyUSA poll).
The SHKN survey showed Prop 79 (the Dem/Union backed pharma measure) winning, not losing,
with more Republicans (62%) supporting it than Democrats (54%).
It does not compute.
http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp/docs/appendix%20to%2010-17-2005%20Hoover-KN%20press%20release%20V2.pdf
This explains why Tom is recommending the votes yes or no on specific issues.
Voting recommendations from Tom McClintock
#73 – YES
#74 – YES
#75 – YES
#76 – YES
#77 – YES
#78 – NO
#79 – NO
#80 – NO
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.