I’m happy to pass along my recommendations on the ballot measures.
Voters received an “I Voted” sticker after casting their ballot at the Orange Public Library in Orange, California, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. If you’re a registered voter in California, you’ll receive your mail ballot for the November 5 general election in a day or two. Parts of it will look like a law school exam. If you vote on a touch-screen, it may look like a TV show about a law school exam.No on Prop. 2 — This is a huge $10 billion bond for school facilities.
No on Prop. 5 — This treacherous measure makes it easier to raise property taxes. It removes the important requirement for a two-thirds vote of the electorate to take on local debt, a protection that has been in the California Constitution since 1879. Even in the 1849 Constitution, from the Gold Rush era, the legislature was directed “to prevent abuses” of excess local debt. But Prop.
No on Prop. 33 — For the third time, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is trying to repeal a 1995 state law that limits local rent control ordinances. Right now, rent control is prohibited on single-family homes and condos, and apartment owners are allowed to raise the rent on a rent-controlled unit to market rate after a tenant moves out voluntarily. Prop. 33 gets rid of those protections for property owners and forbids the state to enact a similar protection ever again.
Yes on Prop. 36 — This is the “fix” to Proposition 47, the criminal justice reform passed in 2014 but now unpopular due to a rise in property crimes and drug use. It’s a thoughtful change that allows tougher penalties on the third offense and seeks to get more people into treatment for substance abuse.No on Measure A — This is a sales tax increase, another one-half percent to fund the same failed homelessness programs, permanently. It would cost more than $1 billion per year.
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