Voters reject Prop. 82

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 6/7/06 | Dana Hull

[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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[jebeier]

Meathead goes down in flames. Oh, that's sweet!

[jebeier]

Last Summer, this boondoggle looked inevitable. Now it goes down almost 2 to 1. My faith in California is restored!

[Izzy Dunne]

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.

[COBOL2Java]

...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!

[G.Mason]

"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.

[RonDog]

"Meathead"

Prop 82 sponsor Rob Reiner
in happier days

[Vaquero]

Meathead being comforted.

[lionheart 247365]

Sorry about your luck Meathead .

[DB]

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

[Savage Beast]

"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.

[pigsmith]

"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.

[Tax-chick]

Good news out of California! Actually, California has often shown surprising sense, when it comes to referendum votes.

[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.

[jebeier]

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.

[RobFromGa]

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.

[Gabz]

This just soooooooooo SWEET!!!!!!!

Meathead down in flames!!!

[Tax-chick]

Morning, gabz! Howya?

[Gabz]

Doing just fine, and yourself?

[Slings and Arrows]

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

[Vaquero]

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....