Not quite. In California the issuance of bonds requires a ballot initiative. It is the people of California who have buried themselves in never ending debt.
The unions and environmentalists have perfected the art of advertising and pushing their agendas to the uninformed voters.
I cry b*S* to you and the gov't of California; I have voted NO and the majority of everyone I know has voted NO on every bond issue, tax hike, and fee put before us. I strongly suspect the elections are rigged in multiple-choice ways; whatever it takes to get the bond issue through. Certainly the legislature VOTED to put those issues on the public ballot anyways, so it's coming from the kleptocrats no matter how you slice it.
The electronic voting system (supposedly to address disabled voters), the vote-by-mail system - they all have demonstrable flaws which the elections officials have never addressed. ALL of the electronic voting systems in use or proposed for use were hacked by a team of researchers tasked with testing them out; but the POS SOS accepted the systems anyway!
GRRRRRRR!!!!!