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Voters reject Prop. 82
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 6/7/06 | Dana Hull

Posted on 06/07/2006 4:23:36 AM PDT by jebeier

California voters soundly rejected Proposition 82 Tuesday, crushing the hopes of early childhood education advocates who hoped to make universal preschool public policy in the nation's most populous state.

Throughout much of the evening, returns showed that 60 percent of voters statewide opposed Prop. 82 while just 40 percent supported it, making it nearly impossible for the measure to ever get the simple majority it needed to pass.

``It doesn't look good,'' admitted Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who spoke to about 200 supporters at a Los Angeles hotel ballroom shortly after 10 p.m...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: deadfromtheneckup; meathead; preschool; prop82
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Meathead goes down in flames. Oh, that's sweet!
1 posted on 06/07/2006 4:23:39 AM PDT by jebeier
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Last Summer, this boondoggle looked inevitable. Now it goes down almost 2 to 1. My faith in California is restored!


2 posted on 06/07/2006 4:25:44 AM PDT by jebeier (I'm having a Patty and Selma moment. I want to light up a cigarette and chuckle, and I don't smoke!)
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Sit on it and rotate, meathead.

Reiner, who along with his wife and father, director Carl Reiner,

That's the second article I've seen that describes Carl Reiner as "his wife and father".

Weird.

3 posted on 06/07/2006 4:28:45 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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...Prop. 82 would have taxed the state's wealthiest residents to provide a free year of preschool to every 4-year-old. The tax-the-rich initiative, which had the support of Hollywood activists and labor unions, seemed a sure winner when it was first unveiled earlier this spring...

No soup for you!


4 posted on 06/07/2006 4:28:52 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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To: jebeier
"My faith in California is restored!"


As a refugee from New Jersey, I fully understand that thinking.

As long as you don't start to believe N.J. will secede from the communist, socialist, Left Coast, you are still sane.



5 posted on 06/07/2006 4:29:56 AM PDT by G.Mason (Others have died for my freedom; now this is my mark ... Marine Corporal Jeffrey Starr, KIA 04-30-05)
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"Meathead"

Prop 82 sponsor Rob Reiner
in happier days

6 posted on 06/07/2006 4:31:12 AM PDT by RonDog
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Meathead being comforted.
7 posted on 06/07/2006 4:36:56 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Sorry about your luck Meathead .


8 posted on 06/07/2006 4:38:31 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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To: jebeier

Well, my faith isn't restored but I do feel better.


9 posted on 06/07/2006 4:39:14 AM PDT by DB (©)
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"Prop. 82 sounded really good, but the more I looked at it, the more I realized it was subject to shenanigans."

Clear observation, David, but, if it's coming from the Left, you already know it's subject to shenanigans.

10 posted on 06/07/2006 4:39:53 AM PDT by Savage Beast (9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President George Bush and his supurb leadership.)
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"Prop. 82 would have taxed the state's wealthiest residents to provide a free year of preschool to every 4-year-old. The tax-the-rich initiative, which had the support of Hollywood activists and labor unions, seemed a sure winner when it was first unveiled earlier this spring."

If these Hollywood guys with more money than brains are so worried about preschoolers, why don't they just start their own privately-funded program, and they can throw as much money at it as they wish.

11 posted on 06/07/2006 4:40:06 AM PDT by pigsmith (I think I answered my own question there somewhere...)
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Good news out of California! Actually, California has often shown surprising sense, when it comes to referendum votes.


12 posted on 06/07/2006 4:41:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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We'll always have Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and Spinal Tap as Reiner's legacies-- no need for this pre-school boondoggle.


13 posted on 06/07/2006 4:41:40 AM PDT by RobFromGa (The FairTax cult is like Scientology, but without the movie stars)
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To: G.Mason
As a refugee from New Jersey, I fully understand that thinking.

Funny, I'm a refugee from California to New Jersey. Bucking the trend, I know...

So between us, we're a wash.

14 posted on 06/07/2006 4:42:14 AM PDT by jebeier (I'm having a Patty and Selma moment. I want to light up a cigarette and chuckle, and I don't smoke!)
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If these Hollywood guys with more money than brains are so worried about preschoolers, why don't they just start their own privately-funded program, and they can throw as much money at it as they wish.

Michael Jackson tried that and it didn't turn out so good. I don't think we want the Hollywierds anywhere near pre-schoolers.

15 posted on 06/07/2006 4:43:30 AM PDT by RobFromGa (The FairTax cult is like Scientology, but without the movie stars)
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To: jebeier; SheLion

This just soooooooooo SWEET!!!!!!!

Meathead down in flames!!!


16 posted on 06/07/2006 4:44:14 AM PDT by Gabz (Proud to be a WalMartian --- beep)
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To: Gabz

Morning, gabz! Howya?


17 posted on 06/07/2006 4:44:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I am a daughter of God, a child of the King, a holy fire burning with His love.)
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Doing just fine, and yourself?


18 posted on 06/07/2006 4:46:38 AM PDT by Gabz (Proud to be a WalMartian --- beep)
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To: RonDog

Man, that picture was from a lot of pounds ago.

19 posted on 06/07/2006 4:46:52 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: RobFromGa
We'll always have Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and Spinal Tap as Reiner's legacies-- no need for this pre-school boondoggle.

I really love "Tap" and 'Stand by Me' was a true gem....he should stick to making movies....he has an apptitude for making them....and little or no apptitude for politics....

20 posted on 06/07/2006 4:47:32 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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