For some reason I didn’t think we were voting until November, but I was wrong. Not only is it a primary to decide who wins the nomination for each party, but there are also two big money propositions on the ballot.
No on Prop 81 – $600 million dollars in BONDS to renovate libraries = bad idea. I’m all for public libraries and the cities where they are located paying for them, but selling bonds is always a dumb idea. Selling bonds to pay for this is like taking out a loan, and ultimately it makes the whole thing cost twice as much. That’s over a billion dollars to renovate libraries. In 1986 the state owed $4 billion in bonds, but now we owe over $50 billion! (cool site) If we don’t budget the money to pay for it, then it should have to wait. Unfortunately voters see "money for libraries" and think it’s just dandy.
No on Prop 82 – Preschool is fine if you want it, but don’t force the wealthy to pay to send kids to some cheesy "school" that won’t make much of a difference, if any at all. Rob Reiner is the proponent of this one, so that automatically makes my vote a NO. There is already too much government involvement in education, so let’s not make it worse.
Other than that I’ll be voting Arnold for Governor and Tom McClintock for Lieutenant Governor (both will win the nominations because everyone else are no names). I honestly have no idea who any of the other people on the ballot are, so I probably just won’t vote for any of them.
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