[rottndog]

The school bonds are a pork filled, misdirected program, as are ALL of the bonds.

The dirty little secret of the bond process in CA, is that once a bond is passed, under the law the money HAS to be spent, whether it is spent wisely or not. The result is that the authors of these bond measures deliberately overestimate the amount of money needed for the stated purpose of the bond, so that there are tens of millions of dollars available for misspending (read: political graft). The whole process needs to be scrapped.

[calcowgirl]

IMO, the way many of these bond measures are written, they are not limited to "infrastructure" (which is actually a small part of the total) and allow for funds to be used by various Government departments. That provides a slush fund to supplement revenues for big government spending--ultimately using bond funds to cover the continuted deficit spending.