BEEN TOO PREOCCUPIED FOLLOWING THE BOUNCING NASDAQ AND DOW TO pay attention to what’s on the ballot? Well, allow yours truly to provide some last-minute advice on some of the holes to punch:
Measure F: The Attack of the Killer NIMBYs. No.
Prop 1A: Let the people play. Yes.
Prop 22: Win one for Ozzie and Harriett. Yes.
Prop 26: The education establishment and some business interests are pushing hard to eliminate the state constitutional requirement that school bonds get two-thirds voter approval, instead of simple-majority approval. But since 1986 more than $17 billion in K-12 bond measures have cleared the higher hurdle, while $11 billion worth that won a majority vote, didn’t. Seems like the system’s working. Besides, what public schools need isn’t more money, it’s more accountability. Passing this measure would send the wrong message. No.
Prop 28: Bring back cigar stores! Yes.
Props 30 & 31: The Democrats who control Sacramento are creating plenty of new business for the trial lawyers. No reason for the rest of us to do the same. No & no.
GOP central committee races: There’s something disingenuous about Tom Fuentes defending his creaky political machine by playing the race and gender cards, but there’s something unsavory about the county’s social set sashaying into the political arena, waving their checkbooks and stepping on toes. Can’t we all just get along? Flip a coin.
Presidential primaries: Where’s my boy Steve Forbes?
