Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:50:39 AM
First of all, for those of you living outside of California, let us be a lesson to you. Do not let happen to your state what has happened to California. California is and has been lead by a very very left wing legislature and now for a few years a pretty liberal Republican. This will change next year when we either elect Villaraigosa (cheating on his wife will not stop his rise to the Governor's office) or Gavin Newsome, Mayor of San Francisco. You'd never normally get me to say this but given the two, I would actually prefer Villaraigosa. It is a choice like do you want death by firing squad or by hanging? But there you are. Notice I didn't mention the Republican. That is because the Republican Party is almost irrelevent in California. Many have left to greener and lesser taxed pastures with more reasonably priced housing in other neighboring states. I know Arizona, Nevada, Colorado you'd like to send us Californians back, and we'd take them.
Given that California is broke because of Democratic rule that would make drunken sailors blush, I am starting with the propostion that we cannot afford it. Given that I am voting no on all statewide initiatives except 4, 8, 11, and 12.
Prop 4: Parental Notification. Parets must be notified 48 hours if their minor daughter seeks an abortion. They do not have to get consent, just notified. My friend Ken pointed out that why is it a 14 year old girl needs parental permission to get earrings but a 13 year old can have a medical procedure like an abortion without the parents knowing.
Prop 8: Marriage is Man and a Woman only. Can you imagine even 10 years ago we would need to put it in a ballot initiative? The reason is an overactive judiciary that find rights wherever they wish. If this does not pass, Gay marriage will sweep the nation. This may not bother many of you but do understand marriage will be radically changed. Our children in schools will be taught at a very early age that marriage between two men and two women is the same and equally preferable to the man and woman marriage of their parents. Crazy you say? It is already happening in California.
Prop. 11: Redistricting. This takes redisricting away from the legislature and gives it to a panel. One of the reasons California's Democratic party is so left and the country is blessed with Pelosi is because the districts are drawn to guarantee elections by the party who drew the districts. Therefore the districts are extreme and have very lopsided ratios of Democrats to Republicans. We as normal people, anyone to the right of Bill Ayers are forced to use the ballot initiative process to get anything done and circumvent the idiots in the legislature. Honestly, this is a case where it can't get any worse. Keven James said last night, he'd be for this measure if , "Vladamir Putin" was drawing the districts.
Prop. 12: Bond measure to assist returning veterans with purchasing homes in California. Debt owed. Enough said.
There may be local initiatives in each city our county worth mentioning but the above are just state wide measures. Good luck and happy voting.