CA: Voters may have ensured Schwarzenegger's legacy with bond package

AP - Santa Maria Times ^ | November 8, 2006 | AARON C. DAVIS

[calcowgirl]

State Ballot Measures
97.9% ( 24565 of 25090 ) precincts reporting as of Nov 8, 2006 at 5:23 am

 

Prop	.	Description	YES	Percent	NO	Percent
Prop 1A	Y	Transp Fund Protect	4,889,840	76.60%	1,498,096	23.40%
Prop 1B	Y	Hwy/Air/Port Bond	3,919,246	61.30%	2,482,466	38.70%
Prop 1C	Y	Housing Shelter Fund	3,680,872	57.50%	2,723,923	42.50%
Prop 1D	Y	School Facility Bond	3,627,826	56.50%	2,793,349	43.50%
Prop 1E	Y	Disaster/Flood Bond	4,059,223	64.00%	2,289,600	36.00%
Prop 83	Y	Sex Offender Reform	4,550,728	70.50%	1,907,205	29.50%
Prop 84	Y	Water/Flood/Park	3,407,554	53.80%	2,927,556	46.20%
Prop 85	N	Parental Notificat.	2,976,766	45.90%	3,506,283	54.10%
Prop 86	N	Cigarette Tax	3,149,147	47.80%	3,426,440	52.20%
Prop 87	N	Energy/Oil Tax	2,958,348	45.30%	3,565,895	54.70%
Prop 88	N	Educ. Fund/Prop. Tax	1,481,505	23.10%	4,926,697	76.90%
Prop 89	N	Campaign Public Fund	1,618,591	25.50%	4,723,962	74.50%
Prop 90	N	Eminent Domain	3,015,051	47.40%	3,333,581	52.60%

 

 

 

[calcowgirl]

Top statewide races

STATEWIDE RESULTS:

U.S. Senate - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Feinstein , Dianne (i)	Dem	3,846,631	59.78
	Mountjoy , Dick	GOP	2,237,313	34.77

Governor - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Schwarzenegger , Arnold (i)	GOP	3,640,250	55.69
	Angelides , Phil	Dem	2,565,020	39.24

Lieutenant Governor - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Garamendi , John	Dem	3,183,370	49.51
	McClintock , Tom	GOP	2,876,854	44.74

Secretary of State - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Bowen , Debra	Dem	3,067,576	48.50
	McPherson , Bruce (i)	GOP	2,818,496	44.56

Attorney General - California 23624 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Brown , Jerry	Dem	3,616,389	56.71
	Poochigian , Chuck	GOP	2,411,502	37.81

Treasurer - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Lockyer , Bill	Dem	3,442,921	54.79
	Parrish , Claude	GOP	2,319,097	36.90

Controller - California 23582 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Chiang , John	Dem	3,204,926	50.85
	Strickland , Tony	GOP	2,520,297	39.99

Insurance Commissioner - California 23601 of 25231 Precincts Reporting

	Name	Party	Votes	Pct
	Poizner , Steve	GOP	3,177,074	50.55
	Bustamante , Cruz	Dem	2,442,526	38.86

 

 

 

 

[MAD-AS-HELL]

McClintock lost. That's the saddest news of all in Commiefornia.

[Zhang Fei]

Voters may have ensured Schwarzenegger's legacy with bond package

Yup. California voters will be paying for this long after Schwarzenegger is no longer governor.

[Hildy]

They keep voting in the people who screw them...it's absolutely incredible.

[justa-hairyape]

Some of those bond measures were ludicrous. Pay 40 billion over 26 years to get 20 billion in bond funding. Nice legacy to leave the children to pay.

[zlala]

Schwarzenegger true color is blue, no suprise there.

[lardog]

I am absolutly amazed at the stupidity of the majority of voters in this state. The only good news is the cigarette and oil taxes were defeated. It appears that Republicans took it in the shorts nationwide...from house and senate all the way down to city councils. Man, what a bummer. I guess I'll turn in my application for a passport today. But where to go? Do you think I can apply for political asylum in Australia. I am soooo pissed.

[tflabo]

I see prop 85 (Parental notification) failed again.
So the little girls can have an abortion w/o telling parents. Stupid sheeple.

[ByDesign]

"Voters may have ensured Schwarzenegger's legacy with bond package

Yup. California voters will be paying for this long after Schwarzenegger is no longer governor."

This state will be bankrupt before Arnold leaves office, he spends money like a drunken soldier, and has done nothing to cut spending the face of the one thing he's kept his promise on, not raising taxes. Kinda of like someone else we know, in Washington, D.C.

[calcowgirl]

I've gone from angry to numb. I agree with you on the stupidity. The ads for the bonds kept reiterating "Pay over time without raising taxes". It's FREE!!! (grrrr...)

With $40 Billion in bonds (+plus an extra $80 Billion from "other sources"), no eminent domain legislation, and "comprehensive immigration reform", California is going to be a much different place in a decade (or sooner).

[justa-hairyape]

That was one of the few propositions I voted yes on. And I do not even have a daughter.

[justa-hairyape]

California is going to be a much different place in a decade (or sooner).

Aztland is coming. Better learn how the French are coping with their socialist sponsored insurrection.

[jrp]

Cali voters have no consistent philosophy. They overwhelmingly vote down a $50 parcel tax (as they should), but then approve $40 billion in new spending. It makes no sense.

[yooling]

Voters may have ensured Schwarzenegger's legacy that their grandchildren will be paying for their ignorance with bond package, with nothing to show for it.

[Excellence]

They keep voting in the people who screw them...it's absolutely incredible.

But it felt so good at the time.

[DoughtyOne]

un b livable

[calcowgirl]

There was zero organized opposition to the bonds and they were being promoted under a "bipartisan" label. Voters truly don't understand that bonds are debt... they are taxes. Prop 84 was shown to be a sham yet the CA GOP didn't even voice its opposition in mailers. Prop 1C Affordable Housing and new housing for farmworkers--there was also no opposition included in GOP mailers. All of these were promoted by the Governor, who some continue to present as a "fiscal conservative". The majority of voters were either liberal, stupid or confused--or some combination of the three. Who can blame them?

[calcowgirl]

Not a happy day. :-(