Measure F wins: A wakeup call for the pro-El Toro forces. Orange County’s air transportation needs are too important to be decided by this no-growth initiative, and they won’t be. But now the momentum is clearly with the airport foes. Coming soon: Yours truly’s prescription for saving the El Toro airport.
The New Majority: Not yet.
Prop 26 Loses: Given that it outspent the taxpayer watchdogs by 10-1 and still couldn’t kill the state’s two-thirds voter requirement on school bonds, the Education-Industrial Complex is advised to consider one of two options: Next time, try outspending them 100-1, or try putting all of those millions and effort that went into the Prop 26 campaign into genuinely reforming California’s education system so that voters will be more inclined toward giving bond measures a two-thirds approval.
Props 30 and 31 Lose: Hooray. But, like the Terminator, the trial lawyers will be back.
George W: Gore won the California beauty contest, but the combined GOP (Bush-McCain) vote topped the combined Democrat (Gore-Bradley) vote by 8%, or a little better than a half million votes of 6.5 million cast. Which raises the question, why does the mainstream media keep insisting it’s Bush who has to move to “the middle” and not Gore?
