{"id":8861,"date":"2009-05-14T18:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-14T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:26:51","slug":"the-tracy-press-makes-the-progressive-case-against-prop-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/14\/the-tracy-press-makes-the-progressive-case-against-prop-1a\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tracy Press Makes the Progressive Case Against Prop 1A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I am <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8627\/prop-1a-needs-to-be-defeated-and-im-going-to-help\">working for the No on 1A Campaign<\/a>, however, I am not working for any other No campaign. My opinions should not be construed to be those of the campaign, especially when it comes to the remaining measures.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I must admit that I was a bit surprised when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/llkH\">this editorial<\/a> at the Tracy Press. It clearly lays out what can only be described as the progressive case against Proposition 1A:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This hastily drafted measure won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Proposition 1A has such rigid provisions, it would lock in a reduced level of public services without taking into account California&#8217;s changing demographics, population growth and future policies. It would also give the future governors new power without legislative oversight.<\/p>\n<p>1A isn&#8217;t even a short-term patch on a long-term problem. Most of this measure&#8217;s provisions wouldn&#8217;t take effect for two years. In that time, we could repeal the two-thirds legislative vote requirement for budgets and tax increases &#8211; and we could work on real budget reform, without the permanent changes that 1A would make to the state&#8217;s Constitution. (<a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/llkH\">Tracy Press<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like reading something straight out of the virtual pages of Calitics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>I am <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8627\/prop-1a-needs-to-be-defeated-and-im-going-to-help\">working for the No on 1A Campaign<\/a>, however, I am not working for any other No campaign. My opinions should not be construed to be those of the campaign, especially when it comes to the remaining measures.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I must admit that I was a bit surprised when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/llkH\">this editorial<\/a> at the Tracy Press. It clearly lays out what can only be described as the progressive case against Proposition 1A:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This hastily drafted measure won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Proposition 1A has such rigid provisions, it would lock in a reduced level of public services without taking into account California&#8217;s changing demographics, population growth and future policies. It would also give the future governors new power without legislative oversight.<\/p>\n<p>1A isn&#8217;t even a short-term patch on a long-term problem. Most of this measure&#8217;s provisions wouldn&#8217;t take effect for two years. In that time, we could repeal the two-thirds legislative vote requirement for budgets and tax increases &#8211; and we could work on real budget reform, without the permanent changes that 1A would make to the state&#8217;s Constitution. (<a href=\"http:\/\/tr.im\/llkH\">Tracy Press<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like reading something straight out of the virtual pages of Calitics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[3366,6851,5718,149],"class_list":["post-8861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3366","tag-6851","tag-5718","tag-149"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}