Ok, I took some time to compile information that may or may not save our state from the red devils in our midst. I hope you'll share it with everyone you know on our team! Delicious more after the fold . . .
The link below is from Credo Action Campaign, a progressive network that has taken it upon themselves to show how they and other progressive / liberal groups endorse or condemn each of the California propositions. Please pass this link around to all of your friends and let them know that EVERYONE they love in California should print it off and have it with them in the booth on November 2nd. We all need to vote diametrically opposite to how the teabaggers and right-wing corporatists wouldn't.
www.credoaction.com/voterguide2010/?r=6279&id=11673-3058306-s3Y5Jfx
If you want, you can have it sent to you by TEXT: Send "VOTECA" to 30644 And, here's a link for mobile browsers: http://credoaction.com/...
These propositions are as important this year any day as much as the races for Attorney General Race and even Governor. Vote a Straight Dem Ticket!!! Below are our candidates and a list of the propositions with brief synopses of what they are!
CANDIDATES:
~ Governor: Jerry Brown (www.jerrybrown.org)
~ Lt. Governor: Gavin Newsom (www.gavinnewsom.com)
~ Secretary of State: Debra Bowen (www.debrabowen.com)
~ Attorney General: Kamala Harris (www.kamalaharris.org)
~ Controller: John Chiang (www.johnchiang2010.com)
~ Treasurer: Bill Lockyer (www.lockyer2010.com)
~ Insurance Commissioner: Dave Jones (www.davejones2010.com)
~ U.S. Senate: Barbara Boxer (www.barbaraboxer.com)
I didn't list the myriad of Congressional candidates or state office candidates, but remember, straight Democratic ticket! The above information is provided courtesy of the California Democratic Party (www.cadem.org/vote/candidates).
PROPOSITIONS:
Prop 19: VOTE FOR
Ends failed policy of prohibition, allowing adults over age 21 to possess and grow small amounts of cannabis, allows government to tax and regulate sale of cannabis.
Prop 20: VOTE AGAINST
Would take power to draw Congressional districts away from the Legislature and give it to the commission created by Prop 11 in 2008
Prop 21: VOTE FOR
Fully funds state parks and allows Californians with current vehicle registration to enter all parks for free, funded by an $18/year increase in vehicle registration fee
Prop 22: VOTE AGAINST
Returns money to local government and bans future state taking of such funds, but at potential cost to other vital public services
Prop 23: VOTE AGAINST (This is a HELL NO)
Funded by Texas oil companies, Prop 23 would destroy our green jobs and clean energy economy by repealing our Global Warming Solutions Act
Prop 24: VOTE FOR
Repeals corporate tax loopholes created in the 2008 and 2009 budget, saving California over $1 billion per year
Prop 25: VOTE FOR (This is a HELL YES)
Restores majority rule and democracy to the state legislature by eliminating the 2/3rds rule for budgets that have enabled conservatives to obstruct progressive priorities.
Prop 26: VOTE AGAINST
Creates a new 2/3rds rule for fees that fund environmental protection and other programs, protecting polluters and making it impossible to implement state's global warming law even if Prop 23 fails.
Prop 27: VOTE FOR
Would eliminate the redistricting commission created by Prop 11 in 2008 to redraw state legislative boundaries
Keep the flame burning and keep hope alive! Remember to remind everyone that we voted in CHANGE, and would have gotten it if REPUBLICANS, driven to the right by the anti-American, pro-corporate right-wing, embodied by the idiot Teabag nightmare hadn't filibustered EVERYTHING we tried to do. More filibusters since Obama was elected than during any congress in American history . . . three times more than the closest previous amount. Now is the time to end filibusters by INCREASING the Democratic majority to ensure that this childish tantrum tactic is no longer possible, not to further cripple this President's attempts to live up to his promises. We have a choice on November 2nd. We can grow up and let our elected leaders get to work, or let the Know Nothing, Do Nothing, Racist, Xenophobic, Hateful, GOP turn back the clock and further pad their pocketbooks while our once-proud country crumbles.
Still a lot of work to do before November 2nd!!
(Crossposted from m' MagnanaMouse Facebook Group page :-)
[UPDATE 3 NOV 2:08 AM]
Sad news. Progressive ballot results. We only got two out of the whole shebang. Such a damned shame. At least the two we got were good ones: Big Oil was defeated, and we no longer need 2/3 majority to pass our budgets. Here's a chart to show in blue the results progressives would consider victories. Red, well, grind it up and put it in a tea bag: