Calif.'s Little-Noticed Prop 26 Squeaks Through in Dead of Night (Climate Change Cultists Saddened)

NewYorkSlimes ^ | 11/3/2010 | Colin Sullivan

[GVnana]

"It will make environmental regulation more difficult in many areas -- not just climate change -- as its reach is quite broad," said Louise Bedsworth, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. "Fees are an important funding source for environmental programs. I am not sure what it says about voters or the public and their support for climate change per se, but it could certainly make implementation and funding of climate change programs much more difficult."

Sometimes those unintended consequences can be a good thing.

[TheZMan]

Fear not. They’ll find some court somewhere to overturn it like they do everything else the voters approve.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The leftwing extremists in the mainstream media keep saying that Americans and the TEA Party lost on Tuesday while these little BIG things just keep popping up. The November 2nd tsunami washed away a lot of mud.

[DreamingWest]

nothing in the way people voted here makes sense. They voted for Brown and Boxer, yet they also voted for prop 11... What about 19, so someone out there who voted for Boxer either doesn’t want people to smoke weed or doesn’t want to be taxed for it. I’m thinking the former, but it just doesn’t make any sense.

[goldstategop]

Yup. The Left is going to try to get a liberal judge to overturn it so they can raise fees to their heart’s content.

[goldstategop]

Oh it makes sent. CA’s dependent class is happy to suck the government teats but they don’t want to feed the cow.

[KTM rider]

and to top it off it was defeated in spite of the craftily worded deceptions built into these propositions on the face of the ballot, its like a word game the voters have to sift through.......

[DreamingWest]

no kidding, we had to vote yes to keep a new redistricting panel on the same ballot we had to vote no to dismantle the new redistricting panel. What would have happened if both passed? 8{

[goldstategop]

Conservatives were taken in by language in Proposition 25 that promised to punish lawmakers if they were late in passing the budget. It cleverly disguised the majority vote poison pill that otherwise would have never passed.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

How in the world do Californians keep up with all the propositions they have to vote on every election?

[ari-freedom]

one little proposition won’t undo the damage caused by the election of some really stupid dems.

[goldstategop]

If both Proposition 20 and 27 had passed, the California Constitution says that where two propositions are on the same subject, the one that receives the highest number of valid votes is the one that is adopted.

[ArmstedFragg]

Somehow, our voters have decided that a two thirds requirement is a bad thing when it applies to the budget, but a good thing when it applies to taxes and fees. You have to wonder where they think the money to cover the budget comes from.

[goldstategop]

Californians like direct democracy. Most states have it also.

[goldstategop]

Its simple. Someone else pays. Basically its, keep your hands off MY benefits but don’t tax me for them!

[The Citizen Soldier]

I needed a new tagline, and your post fits my needs perfectly. Thanks.

[muleskinner]

Any controversial political issue that comes up usually ends up as a proposition in California because the democrats in the State Senate and Assembly don't want to vote and have it go on record. They might have to actually defend their job.

So they end up debating useless crap like what should be the State Weed.

Slackers all.

[Dawggie]

Check who is writing the pro arguments in the voter guide. Unions, trial lawyers, Sierra club and the like tend to be a clear indications a no vote is in order. Taxes, bonds and fees get a no vote. If it makes it past those tests, read the bill.

[SuziQ]

Cutting off the water; it’s a good thing!

[aquila48]

Good analogy.

Should be very interesting, not to mention fun to watch, as the liberals and econuts who now will run everything and will want to really crank up the spending, are going to be starved for cash since all new taxes AND FEES will require a 2/3 vote.