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Fresh off the heels of the disingenuous television ad from the unions telling people what Proposal 2 won’t do instead of what it will do comes a doozy from the unions supporting an initiative to add a home-based caregiver unionization scheme into the state constitution. The ad from the “Keep Home Care Safe” group shows Monette Winfield saying how happy she was that she didn’t have to go to a nursing home after a surgery because of the woman who came to her house to help her during her recovery. Monette then says that Proposal 4 ensures that will continue....

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass is rounding out her leadership team. The latest additions: Paul Krekorian and John Pérez. The Public Policy Institute of California has released a survey of voters looking into why Californians voted for or against Propositions 1A (high speed rail), 4 (abortion notification), 8 (gay marriage) and 11 (redistricting). Find the full poll results on Capitol Alert's PPIC page. Most of the results are unsurprising. Evangelical Christians supported Proposition 8 at an 81 percent clip, while voters without a college degree (62 percent) were more likely to vote "yes" than college graduates (43 percent). One notable number...

Self-described Catholics, Christians, married couples and parents approved of Proposition 4 – the family notification before a minor’s abortion initiative – by wide margins on Nov. 4, but their support was not enough to pass the measure. The Secretary of State reports that Proposition 4 failed by a margin of 52.1% no to 47.9% yes. Details on the breakdown of how Californians voted were published yesterday in an Election Day exit poll commissioned by the Sacramento Bee and conducted by the polling firm Edison/Mitofsky, which interviewed 2098 voters. According to the Sacramento Bee exit poll, 60% of voters who identified...

For the third time, California voters are being asked to weigh-in on teen abortions. Proposition 4 on the November 4 ballot would amend the state constitution to require doctors to notify parents 48 hours before performing an abortion on girls under age 18. A few weeks ago, NPR's Forum program took up the debate on Proposition 4. The show's host Michael Krasny moderated a discussion between Margaret Crosby a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Commission and Dolores Meehan with the Yes on 4 Campaign. To listen to the program, click here. Meehan started the conversation by expressing why...

10/13/2008 NO ON PROP. 8, EQUALITY FOR ALL No on Prop. 8, Equality for All SUPPORT MONETARY $1,000,000.00 01/04/2008 COMMITTEE FOR TERM LIMITS AND LEGISLATIVE REFORM Committee for Term Limits and Legislative Reform - Yes on Prop 93 SUPPORT MONETARY $500,000.00 01/07/2008 CALIFORNIANS FOR FAIR EDUCATION/NO ON 92 Californians For Fair Education - No on Prop 92 SUPPORT MONETARY $500,000.00 01/14/2008 CALIFORNIANS FOR FAIR EDUCATION/NO ON 92 Californians For Fair Education - No on Prop 92 SUPPORT MONETARY $500,000.00 12/17/2007 COMMITTEE FOR TERM LIMITS AND LEGISLATIVE REFORM Yes on Prop 93 - Committee for Term Limits and Legislative Reform...

URGENT: JOIN PRO-CHOICE LEADERS TO DEFEAT PROP 4 Dear Feminist Activist, We're emailing you together for the first time, because the situation is critical. Never before have all of us -- leaders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), NARAL Pro-Choice America (NARAL), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), and Feminist Majority Foundation -- joined together to ask for your immediate help. Our message is urgent. We must defeat Proposition 4 in California. Right now polls show we are down by just two points -- 46-44 percent -- so we can still turn it around. This draconian, deceptive so-called parental...

Prop. 4, 8 campaigns battle fiercely for crucial Latino vote José Eduardo Verástegui, a Mexican soap opera star and fashion model whom People en Español magazine named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world, is taking to the airwaves to persuade California voters on two emotionally charged social issues. Verástegui is the face - and voice - of Spanish-language commercials calling for "yes" votes in favor of a parental notification law for abortion and a ban on same-sex marriage. His presence in the campaigns for Propositions 4 and 8 underscores the fight for a critical constituency that...

Two newly-released polls disagree about the fate of Prop. 4, the parental notification initiative on abortion. A survey conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion had Prop. 4 leading 52% to 33% among likely voters surveyed between Sept. 28 and Oct. 5. The Public Policy Institute of California, meanwhile, released a poll of its own which indicates the parental notification measure is supported by 46% of voters, opposed by 44%, and that 10% still don’t know how they'll vote. The group said Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to end same-sex marriage in California,...

The Sierra Club, one of the country's foremost environmental clubs, declined to take a position on Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban, but urged Californians to vote no on Proposition 4, the parental notification measure. Some gays were surprised at the club's omission of the most controversial initiative on the November ballot. The club took positions on several other state ballot measures that concerned environmental issues. Bill Magavern, the California director of the club, told the Bay Area Reporter Monday that Prop 8 "never came up" during meetings of the group's two volunteer committees that determine endorsements. "The last time...

Contact: Patrick Korten, 203-752-4474; Andrew Walther 818-522-2005; both with Knights of Columbus NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- A newly released survey of California voters shows support for Proposition 4 - a proposed law that requires a waiting period and parental notification before a girl under 18 is allowed to have an abortion. The initiative holds a 19 percentage point lead among likely voters, 52% to 33%. The survey was conducted for the Knights of Columbus by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion between September 28 and October 5, 2008. The survey shows that Proposition 4 has...

Prop. 1A High Speed Rail Bond.  NOThis is the most outrageously expensive boondoggle in California’s long history of outrageously expensive boondoggles.  The ultimate cost of this project could end up exceeding $90 billion – or $10,000 per family – all for a train that goes from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two hours longer than it takes to fly.  It’s brought to you by the same folks who botched Boston’s “Big Dig.”  (I’m one of the official opponents of this measure.)Prop. 2 Farm Animals.  NOSorry, but farm animals are food, not friends.  Plan on somewhat happier cows and...

You can say one thing about the Yes on 4 TV ad: It's sure to spark some strong reactions. The campaign to pass an abortion parental notification law aired an ad last night with a young man bragging about impregnating underage girls and then taking them to get secret abortions. The ad features a scruffy looking 20-something, wearing a white t-shirt and fleece jacket, talking straight into the camera about how, "I go out with some teenage girls." "OK, so I get a couple of them pregnant. What is the big deal? I can just take her to get an...

The California Catholic Conference of Bishops supports Proposition 4, the constitutional amendment initiative entitled, Waiting Period and Parental Notification before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy, which will appear on the November 2008 ballot. The proposition would require notification of a parent, guardian, or in the case of alleged parental abuse, other adult family member of a minor 48 hours before she obtains an abortion, unless a judge determines that such notification places the minor in danger. Proposition 4 contains public policy that is both sensible and realistic and which will benefit not only our families but our society as a whole....

Ban on Gay Marriage Trails -- Voters Split on Teen Abortion Constraints, Redistricting SAN FRANCISCO, California, August 27, 2008 — A majority of California’s likely voters oppose Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that would eliminate gay marriage, according to a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with funding from The James Irvine Foundation. Likely voters are divided on two other closely watched measures – one that would require a parent to be notified before a teenager has an abortion and one that would take the power to draw legislative district lines away from...

Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion advocates in California are going after a state ballot proposition that would allow parental notification on abortions. They are saying the measure's ballot summary should be changed because the teen the law is named after was married at the time of the abortion that killed her.Named for a 15-year-old girl who died just four days after a legal abortion left her with a torn cervix and fatal infection, Sarah's Law, if approved, will protect the health and safety of young girls.The California Secretary of State qualified Sarah's Law for the November ballot after backers submitted...

Propositions that are on the November 4, 2008 General Election Ballot* Bond MeasureProposition 1 SB 1856 (Chapter 697, 2002). Costa. Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century.** **Note: The Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century was originally scheduled to appear on the November 2, 2004, General Election ballot. Subsequently, Senate Bill 1169, Chapter 71, Statutes of 2004, provided that it appear on the November 7, 2006, General Election ballot. However, most recently, Assembly Bill 713, Chapter 44, Statutes of 2006, provides for the submission of this Act on the November...