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The Truth on Carly's Prop 13 Claim
25 May 2010 & 1 March 2000 | Joshua TreviƱo & Carly Fiorina

Posted on 05/25/2010 3:17:30 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture

The Truth on Carly's Prop 13 Claim

Carly Fiorina directly attacked a cornerstone of California's conservative movement -- and one of the few institutional protections California's property owners enjoy. In short, she attacked Proposition 13. And there's proof.

Below, I'm appending a rather interesting little op-ed from the March 2nd, 2000, San Jose Mercury-News. It's by one Carly Fiorina and John Doerr (then as now a venture capitalist and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), and it enthusiastically endorses California's Proposition 26 of 2000.

What was 2000's California Proposition 26? In brief, it was an attack on the provisions of California's historic 1978 Proposition 13, which capped property taxes at 1% of the value of a property. Under Proposition 13, local governments may enact special taxes exceeding the 1% limit with a two-thirds-majority vote of the populace. Proposition 26 in 2000 would have fatally weakened 1978's Proposition 13, by lowering the two-thirds requirement for local special taxes to a simple majority for education-related purposes.

In short, Proposition 26 would have ended Proposition 13 as a meaningful protection for California's over-taxed homeowners. That's why the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, which has endorsed Chuck DeVore, fought successfully to defeat it at the polls.

And that's why Carly Fiorina -- an instinctive liberal in nearly every instance before the present election campaign -- supported it.

Carly Fiorina will have a tough time explaining why she joined in a fight to overturn Prop. 13 in the final two weeks of this campaign. But Republican voters must know that when the time came to defend one of the signal accomplishments of modern conservatism in California, she stood on the other side.

Oh, and the punchline to all this? She didn't even vote in that election.

All the best,
Joshua Treviño

Joshua S. Treviño
Communications Director
DeVore for California
Online: ChuckDeVore.com



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; carly; carlyfiorina; chuckdevore; devore; elections; fiorina; johndoerr; kleinerperkins; kpcb; prop13; prop26; proposition13; proposition26; rino; therealcarly; ussenate
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1 posted on 05/25/2010 3:17:30 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Jim Robinson; pissant

Ask mentioned in today’s debate.

FRegards.


2 posted on 05/25/2010 3:18:12 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Oh boy, prepare yourself for the FioRINO supporters mad sheep disease. They're out on droves this afternoon!
3 posted on 05/25/2010 3:18:45 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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To: MollyKuehl
She has supporters? She's an idiot: the Destroyer Of Companies.

Who'd support this affirmative action hire?

4 posted on 05/25/2010 3:20:50 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (FREE ARIZONA!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Fiorina is a Big Government Statist!


5 posted on 05/25/2010 3:21:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: MollyKuehl

I’m used to their bile and stupidity. The only question is: are they on the Carly payroll or not?


6 posted on 05/25/2010 3:21:47 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Psycho_Bunny
She has supporters? She's an idiot: the Destroyer Of Companies.

Oh, she has plenty of supporters, especially here, just look at some of them on this post alone. It takes a RINO to support a RINO. It is that simple!
7 posted on 05/25/2010 3:23:18 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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Link: http://chuckdevore.com/n/prop13.asp
8 posted on 05/25/2010 3:24:08 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture

These people don’t think anyone will know what they have done over the years. Thanks for keeping this front and center.


9 posted on 05/25/2010 3:25:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
I’m used to their bile and stupidity. The only question is: are they on the Carly payroll or not?

I don't think they are necessary on her payroll, I think they are this California Nouveau Republican, the one who is at the left of a RINO, a Liberal Light version and they truly believe in her. They are also the ones thinking they are support the only one who has a chance to get rid of Boxer but why replace Boxer with one who shares her ideology? These are the equivalent of the Obama voters, attracted by hype, uninformed and borderline demented.
10 posted on 05/25/2010 3:25:57 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Libtards are salivating to repeal Prop 13, they’re going to try to do it by increments.

They see the time as right—CA property values are dropping, so they may be able to convince voters that it won’t hurt.

I can’t imagine how many elderly homeowners we have who own their homes outright & have for 30 years or more. They would be reassessed at current values. Would be devastating to them economically.

The final nail in the CA coffin will be the elimination of Prop 13.


11 posted on 05/25/2010 3:28:13 PM PDT by jazminerose
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To: jazminerose
Actually, home prices in the bay area are going up again.

BTW: Calipornians are still fools for cutting off tax revenue while STILL demanding a high amount of services and high public employee salaries/benefits. Spending and borrowing is just as noxious as taxing and spending. "Ballot initiatives" and the "will of the sheeple" are not effective ways of managing revenue, as the great unwashed will always vote for more services, but lower taxes.

12 posted on 05/25/2010 3:31:21 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
How is this relevant to a U.S. Senate campaign?
I can understand if she was running for Governor. But she's not.
13 posted on 05/25/2010 3:35:47 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: MollyKuehl
Oh boy, prepare yourself for the FioRINO supporters mad sheep disease.

Why don't you attack the real liberal in the race or help DeVore get beyond 15% in the polls and $500,000 in contributions. You people spend your time attacking Carly when you should be out there helping DeVore.

14 posted on 05/25/2010 3:38:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Why don't you attack the real liberal in the race or help DeVore get beyond 15% in the polls and $500,000 in contributions. You people spend your time attacking Carly when you should be out there helping DeVore.

Don't be in such rush to assume things, so many of us are already doing so. JOIN DEVORE CAMPAIGN

However, the truth about FioRINO needs to come forward.
15 posted on 05/25/2010 3:41:54 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And he’ll still get 3rd place in a 3 person race.


16 posted on 05/25/2010 3:45:08 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: MollyKuehl
However, the truth about FioRINO needs to come forward.

Carly is running for the U.S. Senate.

This is a state issue. Do you understand the difference between what a Senator does and what a Governor or state legislator does? How does this issue affect Carly's Senate campaign?

17 posted on 05/25/2010 3:47:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: MollyKuehl
These are the equivalent of the Obama voters, attracted by hype, uninformed and borderline demented.

Yeah, we're so uninformed and delusional that we can clearly see the conservative candidate running for a year and still in last place and with no money or infrastructure to sustain a general election campaign.

Go take your freaking meds.

18 posted on 05/25/2010 3:50:47 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: CounterCounterCulture

Just vote Chuck DeVore.


19 posted on 05/25/2010 3:53:59 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Oh, I see. Silly me, I guess that her Liberal position, albeit on a state issue, makes it okay since she's running for US Senate.

Boy, you sure showed me! (SIC)
20 posted on 05/25/2010 3:55:16 PM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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