CALIFORNIANS:
If you're a renter, or you might be one, or you know and like people who rent, you should vote against Proposition 98 next Tuesday, June 3.
gordonzola has done a fine job of explaining why at
this post and previously at
this other post. I'll summarize here with cut and paste bits from his post:
State Proposition 98 on the June 3 ballot will
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i wonder if we can get an initiative passed that rids CA of the initiative system.
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I think the real problem is that we've lost our Jeanette Rankins, and Bob la Follettes, and oozing in to take their place, wankers like Howard Jarvis. The reactionaries, opportunists, and realtors are a hell of a lot better organized now, the way the Progressives used to be.
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It sounds like California is still stuck in the hell that we in Ontario suffered through for 8 years, but managed to drag ourselves out of a few years ago. I'm going to link to Wikipedia not because it's the be-all and end-all of human knowledge, but because that particular article happens to accurately represent the situation as I understand it. :)
I was in high-school at the time, and I experienced many of the same types of "cost-cutting" measures: arts and music down the toilet, crises in health-care, highways getting built and then sold to private corporations (who, incidentally, now have the highest tolls of any highway in North America), and so on.
Glad we got out of that one, but the effects are still noticeable around here 6 years later. (Ed: I have no idea where "almost 10" came from, heh.)
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