Californians are being asked to vote on 10 propositions in the 2024 election, covering issues from minimum wage and marriage equality to increasing penalties for some theft and drug crimes.
We've put together a guide to the 2024 propositions in California. Scroll down to read about each ballot proposition.
The ballot language for each proposition is available from the Secretary of State's office. Continue reading below for our summaries of each measure, the argument for and against it, and a short list of supporters and opponents.
Voting no on every one except 34 and 36. Every damn time there are those stupid bond issues which seem to pass most of the time. Commiefornia...hybo
ReplyDeleteKalifonia's constitution is three times it's original size due to amendments. It literally contradicts itself. Shame...
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I recall one time when I lived in CA - decades ago - there was a vote on a bond issue - insurance something or another as I recall. It was voted down. Those in favor took it to court and a judge overturned the vote. Who gives a damn about elections in CA, you're wasting your time - the result is pre-determined before the ballots are even printed.
ReplyDeleteWasn't gay marriage the same in California? I thought it was voted down numerous time but the court is what made it law under some crazy interpretation of existing amendments.
ReplyDeleteAfter Proposition 8 was passed by the voters, providing that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California", its opponents sued and the case ended up in a federal court presided by Judge Vaughn Walker. He found the law was unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
DeleteThe following year, Judge Walker retired, announced that he was gay and that he had been in a relationship with a man for ten years. He claimed all of his colleagues knew but the public did not, and he felt no responsibility to tell them he was gay or recuse himself from the case.
BTW, through this entire process Kamala Harris was Attorney General of California and she never lifted a finger to support the majority of Californians who voted in support of Proposition 8.
Oh, thank you. I've just now decided not to let myself go out and get FOOD until I've filled out my ballot. Every time I try to force myself to wade through the ever-thickening Official Voter Information Guide to help me make my best-informed decisions, I have to reach for my aspirin bottle.
ReplyDeleteI mean, it's now WORSE than the very most obtuse legalese these days. Harks up ancient hatreds. Fills me with desire to accomplish the universal slap. Makes me YELL in my mortal effort to escape the quicksand of futility.
I'll just follow your link and see if it doesn't help me skip the meltdown.
Nines- Prop 36 attempts to reverse some of the damage done by Gavie's soft on crime Prop 47, that reduced felonies to misdemeanors and opened the door to smash and grab robberies. Prop 36 is a definite 'Yes' vote.
DeleteThe property taxes in austin are high. They had a lady complaining about it. They asked her if she votes yes for the bond measures. She said yes. She never put the two together. Every bond you approve is an increase in your property tax.
ReplyDeleteI still doubt if the apartment buildings and land are taxed at fair market value like a house. There are a lot of renters not paying their fair share.
Other than P36, it is a hell, oh hell fuckin no on all of it. All of which I will be responsible for shortly.
ReplyDeleteSame here but I know it will somehow come back and bite us on the ass.
DeleteI remember when Proposition 13 was passed because California was going broke. People celebrated and were happy. Then they turned around and voted propositions that defeated Prop 13. And have been voting themselves into debt since.
ReplyDeleteForget it, Jake, it's California.
As to eternal amendments, Florida has bought into that shit. Though, at least this year we have 'School Board Members have to announce what party they belong to' and 'Defense of Hunting and Fishing.' Most of the rest are horrible.
ReplyDeleteMassachusetts has five questions on the ballot in November that can be called "The make Mass more like Cali" referendums.
ReplyDeleteThe one that has my retired teacher GF angry wants to eliminate the MCAS tests to graduate.
The referendum to overturn the new unconstitutional gun law was, I understand, blocked and won't be on the ballot.
I eventually noticed that the wording on California bond issues never seemed to change, election to election. Raise money for veteran housing. Raise money for schools. Raise money for apple pie. The faceless drones in charge count on no one paying attention. The question I never heard asked, let alone answered, is where did all the previous money go? Veterans never were housed. Schools were always poverty stricken. We baked our own apple pies. I, happily, have not needed to read a California ballot proposition in 20 years.
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