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Looks like 50% to 50%, with "Yes" in a slight lead for Proposition 73.
Why, oh, why won't they support Proposition 79? I guess the rhetoric about "forcing the pharmaceutical companies to offer discount drugs" compared to "creating a preferred list of companies that will offer discount" was too anti-capitalist.
Seventy-eight is not passing, either.
I can't believe people are actually making it harder for teachers to get tenure! Proposition 74 looks like it's passing, which would mean that teachers need to wait five years before being guaranteed a position compared to two years. How the hell can you get good teachers just be telling them, "Succeed or get fired"?
What the hell is with Proposition 75? Just because the union is spending money on what you alone don't support doesn't mean that you're entitled to withhold your money. That's what democracy is about. I don't support what the federal government is doing, yet I pay tax for it.
It's good that Proposition 76 looks like it's failing.
Why, oh, why can't anyone support Proposition 77? It's actually a good proposition, the best that you could get. By voting "no," you're pretty much guaranteeing no change, and a practical so-called "people-mandate" that five years from now, much like that silly gay-marriage ban in 2000, people will keep using to say no to redistricting reform. Stupid, stupid. If it was so bad, it can always improve. If you had read the actual proposition rather than listen to the rhetoric, you would know that all the retired judges are required not to have held "partisan office." That is a best way to a non-biased redistricting, compared to now.
*SIGH*
Why, oh, why won't they support Proposition 79? I guess the rhetoric about "forcing the pharmaceutical companies to offer discount drugs" compared to "creating a preferred list of companies that will offer discount" was too anti-capitalist.
Seventy-eight is not passing, either.
I can't believe people are actually making it harder for teachers to get tenure! Proposition 74 looks like it's passing, which would mean that teachers need to wait five years before being guaranteed a position compared to two years. How the hell can you get good teachers just be telling them, "Succeed or get fired"?
What the hell is with Proposition 75? Just because the union is spending money on what you alone don't support doesn't mean that you're entitled to withhold your money. That's what democracy is about. I don't support what the federal government is doing, yet I pay tax for it.
It's good that Proposition 76 looks like it's failing.
Why, oh, why can't anyone support Proposition 77? It's actually a good proposition, the best that you could get. By voting "no," you're pretty much guaranteeing no change, and a practical so-called "people-mandate" that five years from now, much like that silly gay-marriage ban in 2000, people will keep using to say no to redistricting reform. Stupid, stupid. If it was so bad, it can always improve. If you had read the actual proposition rather than listen to the rhetoric, you would know that all the retired judges are required not to have held "partisan office." That is a best way to a non-biased redistricting, compared to now.
*SIGH*
posted by Alan at November 08, 2005
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