🚀 go-pugleaf

New Indicator Collective Ballot Endorsements

***Proposition 181:  				YES
Passenger Rail and Clean Air Bond Act
California is far too dependent on automobiles with all too familiar 
consequences.  A $1 Billion bond issue will provide for capital 
investment in rail transit.  This kind of investment is essential if 
there is any hope of kicking the auto habit.

***Proposition 183:				NO
Recall Elections
Would increase the time limit from certification of a sufficient number 
of signatures by which an election must be held to 180 days from their 
current 60 to 80 day limit.  Proponents hope to avoid the costs of 
special elections with a time limit that is more likely to permit a 
recall vote to fall in a general election. It is no trivial matter to 
meet the requirements necessary to invoke a recall election.  If there 
is sufficient dissatisfaction with an elected official, a recall 
election should be conducted in a timely manner, not six months later.

***Proposition 184:				NO
Increased Sentences.  Repeat Offenders
AKA Three-strikes you're hysterical.  Another feel-good'n'repressive 
measure that fails to address any of the real causes of crime.  This 
measure has already been enacted by the Legislature; the California 
judiciary has been reluctant to apply this poorly written and 
disproportionate policy.  A NO vote holds the very small promise of 
emboldening the Legislature to repeal this procrustean law.  Pitched as 
the way to end violent crime, it actually applies to many non-violent 
crimes.  Three-strikes-we're-broke will cause huge increses in 
incarceration costs and prison construction and hoplessly agravate 
an already dismal state budget.  This would ultimately come at the price 
of increased taxes, lower public school and university funding, reduced 
health and human services and public services.  Some law enforcement, 
prosecutors' and judges' organizations oppose three-strikes because they 
recognize that the costs of incarceration will come at the expense of 
fighting violent crime.

***Proposition 186: 				[no recomendation]
Health Services.  Taxes.
The collective supports universal health care, but is not in consensus 
on 186.  This is, nonetheless, one of the more important propositions on 
this ballot.  See accompanying articles.

***Proposition 187:				NO
"Illegal Aliens." [sic] "Ineligibility for Public Services.
  Verrification and Reporting."
Anti-immigrant backlash of Know-Nothing proportions.  Bill Bennet and 
Jack Kemp have denounced 187 as reactionary...which says quite alot.  
Proponents scape-goat immigrants for California's problems.  
Implementation could cost over $10 billion a year during a tight fiscal 
period, with not real bennefits.  Would force teachers and health-care 
providers to report suspected undocumented immigrants, making them part 
of an INS surveillance apparatus.  Thereby poses serious public health 
risks.  Stiff penalties for false documents could poses severe costs for 
incarceration, and also create an underclass that lacks recourse to 
police protection from violent crime.  See accompanying article.