{"id":11018,"date":"2010-01-30T02:23:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-30T02:23:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T02:23:33","slug":"june-ballot-initiative-numbers-assigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/30\/june-ballot-initiative-numbers-assigned\/","title":{"rendered":"June Ballot Initiative Numbers Assigned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced the ballot numbers<\/a> for the 5 initiatives on the June primary ballot. They’re listed below, along with my own initial take (and those are my own – neither Calitics nor the Courage Campaign has taken a position on these yet):<\/p>\n

Prop 13<\/a>: Exempts seismic retrofits from property taxes. Unsure about this one – might be a good incentive to get older buildings reinforced.<\/p>\n

Prop 14<\/a>: The top-two primary. Definitely voting no on this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 15<\/a>: The California Fair Elections Act, creating public financing for Secretary of State elections in 2014 and 2018. A big ol’ hell yes<\/strong> to this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 16<\/a>: PG&E’s effort to make it harder to create public power districts by requiring a 2\/3rds vote. Definitely voting no on this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 17<\/a>: Mercury Insurance’s effort to gut the Prop 103 consumer protections. Definitely voting no on this one as well. See Naomi Seligman’s post<\/a> for more on this initiative.<\/p>\n

You’ll be hearing a LOT more about these initiatives over the next four months. And it’s still not clear what will be on the much longer November ballot – but we can expect those initiatives to be some of the most important decisions voters have made at the ballot in some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced the ballot numbers<\/a> for the 5 initiatives on the June primary ballot. They’re listed below, along with my own initial take (and those are my own – neither Calitics nor the Courage Campaign has taken a position on these yet):<\/p>\n

Prop 13<\/a>: Exempts seismic retrofits from property taxes. Unsure about this one – might be a good incentive to get older buildings reinforced.<\/p>\n

Prop 14<\/a>: The top-two primary. Definitely voting no on this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 15<\/a>: The California Fair Elections Act, creating public financing for Secretary of State elections in 2014 and 2018. A big ol’ hell yes<\/strong> to this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 16<\/a>: PG&E’s effort to make it harder to create public power districts by requiring a 2\/3rds vote. Definitely voting no on this one.<\/p>\n

Prop 17<\/a>: Mercury Insurance’s effort to gut the Prop 103 consumer protections. Definitely voting no on this one as well. See Naomi Seligman’s post<\/a> for more on this initiative.<\/p>\n

You’ll be hearing a LOT more about these initiatives over the next four months. And it’s still not clear what will be on the much longer November ballot – but we can expect those initiatives to be some of the most important decisions voters have made at the ballot in some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2RI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}