Posted on 03/21/2024 9:18:59 PM PDT by thecodont
California voters have narrowly approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide ballot measure, Proposition 1, which authorizes $6.4 billion in bonds to fund treatment and housing for homeless people with a mental illness or substance-use disorder.
Preliminary election results from the California Secretary of State’s website on Thursday showed that 50.2% of voters chose to approve the measure, while 49.8% voted to reject it. That represents a difference of about 29,000 votes in a race where more than 7 million people turned in a ballot.
The razor thin results defied predictions made before the state’s March 5 primary election that the measure would sail to victory. Instead, it took more than two weeks before media outlets finally called the result on Wednesday, even as the Secretary of State’s website still describes it as a “close contest” (the office has until April 12 to certify the result).
Newsom, who took a visible role in pushing the measure, celebrated the result in a social media post on Thursday. “Prop 1 is the biggest reform of the California mental health system in decades & will finally help us address the mental health crisis,” he wrote. “More community treatment centers will be built all over the state, prioritizing mental health & substance abuse support.”
But just a week ago, the Prop. 1 backers weren’t so confident. After the race remained too close to call for days, a political action committee for Newsom reportedly asked supporters to volunteer to help Democratic voters whose ballots had been disqualified. In a letter, the PAC asked supporters to volunteer to help those voters get their ballots corrected and counted — a strategy meant to ensure the measure passed.
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Fake elections are ALWAYS engineered to have "razor thin results" for reasons of plausible deniability.
California is deep in debt, so the burden will be on Uncle Sugar to provide the cash to fund this, and that means the ever generous US taxpayer and the printing presses in DC running 24/7 will have to take up the slack.
And you can bet that almost none of this money will end up helping the homeless. Probably go right into the politicians pockets. See for reference: Train to nowhere.
Exactly. They are now saying that they need another $100 billion to get that project moving along (but not necessarily finished).
Wasn’t it just revealed TODAY that the state had a $55B shortfall last year?
Only after Newsome and all the legislators skim a bit off the top with fake expenditures. It’s the kleptocratic way.
That's the scariest part of this story.
Sad truth!
GET REAL IDIOT! You don’t live in this BS here in California. I would stake my life on the fact that LEGAL CITIZEN VOTERS in my state are not supporting these Communist @holes! This state would be pure RED WITHOUT THE ELECTION FRAUD!
“But just a week ago, the Prop. 1 backers weren’t so confident. After the race remained too close to call for days, a political action committee for Newsom reportedly asked supporters to volunteer to help Democratic voters whose ballots had been disqualified. In a letter, the PAC asked supporters to volunteer to help those voters get their ballots corrected and counted — a strategy meant to ensure the measure passed.”
It’s as if there wasn’t enough food to go around for dinner so they scraped up what was tossed in the garbage and dropped on the floor, all the peelings and bones and gristle and inedible dirty bits, cleaned it up, and put it on the dinner plates and tried to pretend it was part of the main course.
Right.
I’ll bet they did.
That close? Wondered how many illegals and dead folks voted.
You cannot vote your way out of communism.
They know. They know you know. They delight in rubbing it in your face.
Sound familiar...?
Meanwhile...
“I don’t agree that it’s stolen. Liberals vote liberal irrespective of the consequences. It’s like they have a selective blindness to the consequences of their actions.”
That is so true. And, on top of it, they get angry when it is logically pointed out to them.
Bill sponsored by contractors wanting to do building projects for the state. Newsom is a shill and he collects royalties from organizations which make money from state funds. He is a pure, unadulterated, old school, corrupt man.
Since the state is bankrupt...the contractors will probably be paid last.
More $150K+ per year patronage jobs for useless parasites on the way! At some point, there won’t be enough tax paying Californians to cover those salaries.
Ask McCray deblasio former NY mayors wife about her mental health initiative and the 850 million she has no idea where it is, big scam to support invaders
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