So you’re not going to vote on Tuesday? You say primary elections don’t matter?
Yes, President Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee, and Mitt Romney has already sewn up the requisite number of delegates on the GOP side.
Dianne Feinstein is sure to be the Democratic nominee for Senate once again, and the well-respected incumbent is not likely to lose in a solid blue state. Locally, Democratic incumbents Loni Hancock and Nancy Skinner are running unopposed for state Senate and state Assembly, respectively.
So where does that leave us? With two statewide propositions and a measure in Alameda County. These three issues are important and far-reaching enough for Californians to come to the polls on Tuesday.
Proposition 28 alters terms limits for the California State Legislature, while Prop 29 imposes a tobacco tax that will go to, among other things, cancer research. Measure B is a countywide parcel tax to support four East Bay community colleges.
Despite dealing with millions of dollars, Measure B and Prop 29 are both very specific, transparent laws. While the effects of Prop 28 are impossible to know for sure, the language is equally explicit.
Taxes, terms and tobacco are not often grouped together. Yet these three referendums all have commonalities in their potential for efficacy. Investing in the well-being of Californians — for research, for education, for representation — is an undeniable positive.
The endorsements that follow are the collective opinion of The Daily Californian’s Senior Editorial Board. Compiled after much discussion and debate, these endorsements are meant to educate and recommend. But don’t just read our editorials and take our word for it. Look up the issues yourselves — research them, question them, argue them. And then step into the voting booth and vote for what benefits not just you but all of California.
On good terms
Vote ‘yes’ to allow state legislators more time in office to gain valuable experience and contacts — and to serve you.
Smoke and mirrors
A $1.00 cigarette tax to fund cancer research benefits all Californians — smokers and nonsmokers. Vote ‘yes.’
B true to your schools
Vote ‘yes’ to impose a $48-per-year parcel tax to support our struggling local community colleges in Alameda County
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29 was a poorly written piece of trash.
Shame on the Daily Cal for supporting it.
As usual, student endorsements don’t reflect any clue on how the real world works. However, it was good to see the voters turn down this silliness, at least this time around.
June 5, 2012. A total beatdown for the unions.
Scott Walker wins by an even wider margin than in 2010. Then San Diego and San Jose pass pension reform.
Beatdown.
Vote NO on all tax increases !!
NO on 29 !
NO on B !
The government confiscates too much of your money already! NO on tax increases!
Starve the Lib money sucking machine. No on tax increases.
We never learn. The Daily Cal wants us to support Prop 28. Under the false impression that legislators will gain experience, we are going to potentially extend the amount of time that the people who continuously cut our funding can stay in office. The experience they are gaining? That cutting the funding to the UC gets them money for their other programs without losing the student vote.
The total FAIL by SACTO Libs…
A new poll shows almost three fifths would oppose the bullet train and halt public borrowing if given another chance to vote.
Almost seven in 10 said that, if the train ever does run between Los Angeles and San Francisco, they would “never or hardly ever” use it.
Not a single person said they would use it more than once a week, and only 33 per cent said they would prefer the bullet train over a one hour plane journey or seven hour drive. The cost of a ticket, estimated at $123 each way, also put many off. Jerry Brown, California’s Democrat governor, has championed the project as a way to create jobs and is backed by unions. The 74-year-old governor has been personally committed to a high speed rail link since the 1970s.
But he is trying to convince voters to spend billions on a train while at the same time proposing tax increases and austere public spending cuts, including a five per cent pay cut for state workers, to deal with a budget deficit that has ballooned to $16 billion.
Lib Moonbeam FAILS….Cali circles the toilet prior to Fiscal Flush…keep voting for Libs Cal Kiddies and extend time these clowns serve.
I don’t even want to think about the horrible future awaiting California when we have to pay for the HSR. Billions in loan payments will decimate the state budget, and while we are writing checks, we will see this mostly empty train flying by. It will be the only blue and gold thing we see, because Cal will be shut down as all the university money will be paying for the HSR.
Can you say State Bankruptcy.
Sometimes you have to wonder if liberals were bred for stupidity.