I don't think you understand the Leftist ideal out here in California. The Soviet Union isn't an abomination to be avoided in their eyes; it's the Left's ideal.
Bloody hell! The damned L.A. City Council took a frickin' trip to Cuba a couple of years ago to sit at Fidel Castro's knee and "learn how to better manage" Los Angeles!!
A lot of the problems is that this is a prosperous state where most are busy living their own lives and only those with a direct link to government employment are active in politics because their paychecks depend on the government.
This includes teachers, your run of the mill gov employees and also the police and firepeople.
I am dissappointed that some of the police and fire people were working agaisnt these propositions. They have been a part of the worst horrors in California.
I can't tell you how many bonds have been passed in the name of the police, fire and children.
Most often the refinance an already budgeted issue, get bonds to pay again for it and then the politicians raid the old funding back to the budget to grow their spending/power.
I am having a problem in many ways with the way things operate out here.
We need to repeat these propositions the next couple of elections and we will end up winning.
I'm hearing lots of complaints in the news by the left of how hard it was spending all this money against these propositions.
We need to break their bank. :-)