The California Republican Party Initiatives Committee meet by conference call and voted by a vote of 9-4 to oppose Propositions 1A-1F as a package. The Committee also voted to endorse the Voter ID Initiative.
The recommendations need to be approved by the CRP Executive Committee tomorrow to be official.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Who are the nine and who are the four?
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Get the $700k back from Benedict Arnold while your at it.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
We’ve seen this all before. Remember Arnold’s 2004 deal — “Issue $15 billion of bonds to pay state OPERATING costs (to temporarily balance the budget), and the measure will include a mandated balanced budget.” Indeed, Prop 58 was actually called the “Balanced Budget Act.”
I wrote the ballot arguments against Prop 58, pointing out that the measure was full of huge loopholes and wouldn’t work. I was right. It didn’t. All we got was a $15 billion bill, plus 30 years’ interest.
Today the same cabal of editors, politicians and special interest groups that backed Props 57-58 now back Props 1A-1C. They were dead wrong then, and they are just as wrong now.