Ghoulish Delight
11-09-2005, 10:12 AM
Ding dong, the props are dead.
All of them. And this "special election" is officially a collosal waste of time and money. I can't say I'm not a little delighted at how much of a fool this makes Arny look. While I would have much rather this didn't go forward at all, from my perspective this is the best possible outcome.
This would have been the first time an election results mirrored exactly what I voted for, but at the last minute I decided to vote yes on 80 (energy re-regulation...never thought dereg was a good idea) even though I knew it had no chance.
But essentially, I voted no on everything as my little form of protest against this stupid special election. It helped that I would have voted no for all of them anyway, 'cause they sucked.
Neither of the perscription props seemed like they'd do any good. I have no desire to give the Governor (whomever it is) the amount of power over the budget that was propsed, and forgetting any debates over minors notifying their parents of abortions, I certainly wasn't going to vote for language defining abortion as "the killing of an unborn child" or whatever the exact wording was. Waaay too politically charged.
Even the local measures here faired poorly. The only thing in all of OC that passed was a Newport/Costa Mesa local measure that wasn't on my district's ballot. All 5 of the measures on my ballot were county ones, and man were they idiotic. 5 different agencies vying for a bigger cut of money from a propositon from a couple years back funneling state sales tax money to bolster homeland security. It was the most petty, and complicated, little web of money grabbing. And each of the 5 had complex caveats about which would take precedent should more than one pass. It was ridiculous, so I voted no on all of them because what the hell do I know about which one of these agencies deserves the money more than the others?
My brother in law said it best. He almost always votes no on any props because they are usually either poorly written, or written in a politically charged fashion as to make them hard to agree with, even if you agree with the principle. He plee was, "Why can't we just come up with a system where we elect people who write laws and vote them in for is?" ;)
All of them. And this "special election" is officially a collosal waste of time and money. I can't say I'm not a little delighted at how much of a fool this makes Arny look. While I would have much rather this didn't go forward at all, from my perspective this is the best possible outcome.
This would have been the first time an election results mirrored exactly what I voted for, but at the last minute I decided to vote yes on 80 (energy re-regulation...never thought dereg was a good idea) even though I knew it had no chance.
But essentially, I voted no on everything as my little form of protest against this stupid special election. It helped that I would have voted no for all of them anyway, 'cause they sucked.
Neither of the perscription props seemed like they'd do any good. I have no desire to give the Governor (whomever it is) the amount of power over the budget that was propsed, and forgetting any debates over minors notifying their parents of abortions, I certainly wasn't going to vote for language defining abortion as "the killing of an unborn child" or whatever the exact wording was. Waaay too politically charged.
Even the local measures here faired poorly. The only thing in all of OC that passed was a Newport/Costa Mesa local measure that wasn't on my district's ballot. All 5 of the measures on my ballot were county ones, and man were they idiotic. 5 different agencies vying for a bigger cut of money from a propositon from a couple years back funneling state sales tax money to bolster homeland security. It was the most petty, and complicated, little web of money grabbing. And each of the 5 had complex caveats about which would take precedent should more than one pass. It was ridiculous, so I voted no on all of them because what the hell do I know about which one of these agencies deserves the money more than the others?
My brother in law said it best. He almost always votes no on any props because they are usually either poorly written, or written in a politically charged fashion as to make them hard to agree with, even if you agree with the principle. He plee was, "Why can't we just come up with a system where we elect people who write laws and vote them in for is?" ;)