California voting
The outcomes of Proposition 16 and 17 had not yet been decided when the presses had to roll, so in case you missed it, both went down to defeat after leading most of the night.
After dumping bamillions of dollars into promoting these propositions with full page newspaper ads, innumerable mailings, flyers and promises of free electricity (just kidding!), PG&E (2/3rds vote for municipal utilities) and Mercury Insurance (lower rates for continuous coverage) managed to lose, by about 48% - 52% for both propositions.
It's pretty amazing that Californians had enough sense to vote these down. Perhaps it will make creating and supporting other such initiatives by big business special interests something they will think twice about? Nah.
Proposition 14 (jungle primary, top two general), which was way ahead early, stayed ahead, but lost a lot of ground, ending up with 54%.
If you failed to vote never fear, in just five months another whole slew of initiatives (including legalization of marijuana) will be on the ballot.
After dumping bamillions of dollars into promoting these propositions with full page newspaper ads, innumerable mailings, flyers and promises of free electricity (just kidding!), PG&E (2/3rds vote for municipal utilities) and Mercury Insurance (lower rates for continuous coverage) managed to lose, by about 48% - 52% for both propositions.
It's pretty amazing that Californians had enough sense to vote these down. Perhaps it will make creating and supporting other such initiatives by big business special interests something they will think twice about? Nah.
Proposition 14 (jungle primary, top two general), which was way ahead early, stayed ahead, but lost a lot of ground, ending up with 54%.
If you failed to vote never fear, in just five months another whole slew of initiatives (including legalization of marijuana) will be on the ballot.