ATTENTION CALIFORNIA VOTERS: No on 98

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The last time the landlords wrote a proposition for us here in California it permanently broke local services and education in this state and left homeowners paying for it. We've got a bigger problem now: Prop. 98.

This one is important if you rent, or care about people who do. gordonzola has a good summation at his LJ today, but the jist of it is

Comments

[fweebles]

I don't know much about California property laws, but that don't look right to me either.

What also bothers me is the increasingly prevalent tendency to label people who are "bad guys" as terrorists. I'm not a supporter of people who rob banks, but bank robbers are not terrorists. Terrorists do what they do to scare the ever-loving shit out of people so they can't function and then will accede to some list of demands; sort of a hostage-taking on a grand scale. Bank robbers really just want your money and are quite happy to leave you alone once they've gotten away with it.

Labelling political opponents as terrorists is really taking it to the next level. How, exactly, is Mrs. Lumpkin in 3B who enjoys her rent-controlled apartment to be compared with the Baader-Meinhof or ETA?

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Yeah, this guy is the classic Big Lie blusterer. Unfortunately that's the fashion right now, and he can just Bill O'Reilly along without being shamed.

[odradak]

How the hell something like that could manage to get on your ballot gives me the brain worms.

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Lots of money + dishonest petition shills

[daisyhunter]

Yup. We have to raise rents to keep the murderers, rapists, child molesters and welfare folk out of our communities. Raising rent means only people of quality settle in our neighborhoods.

Nevermind the people being foreclosed on who need to find rental properties and will have to pay whatever we want to charge them, and I mean, its not like we are in a recession and people need affordable housing or anything, our glorious president told us so.

I'm sure keeping marraige "traditional" can be thrown in there somewhere.

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There's some form of rent control just about everywhere, including the "no more than 4% increase a year" rule. If that all goes away, wow.

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I believe the 4% is in L.A. City. I'm not an expert elsewhere.

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Uhm, in what way is rent control good?

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Troll gong!

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No, I really don't get why it is good.

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It keeps the landlord from raising the rent at will? I'm not sure where you're coming from here.