Posted on 04/18/2009 4:14:34 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
This just in from friends on the scene...
California Republican Party (CRP) opposes Prop 1A-1F
Mike Villines & Tom Campbell had spoken in favor of 1A and Steve Poizner against.
Will wonders never cease :-)
there’s a republican party in California?
So what are these things?
In a nutshell, it’s a budgetary shell game put on by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the leftist and RINO sellout legislatures.
Yeah, there maybe 100 of us left in Kalifornia. I’m waiting for Texas to secede.
Better move now, so you don't have to immigrate and apply for citizenship later on.
I’m already an Ornery Texan. They told me so. Got the cup and everything. Hope it still counts when the time comes.
I’m happy with their decision — but it was a no-brainer from day one.
Can they get back the $1 million bucks that the GOP gave Arnie for his YES campaign?
How much time and money willl they invest in the NO campaign?
It has been 52 days since the legislature put this on the ballot and there are only 37 days left until the election. Voter pamphlets have been delivered. Absentee voter ballots are in the mail.
I’ll be interested to see what kind of NO campaign the party actually launches.
Call me a skeptic, but I think they did this on purpose. Dilly-dally while the other team racks up a dozen touch-downs, then decide to play.
And I'm sure you're right.
Jim, you are always welcome in God's country!
You have a reserved spot.
Here is absolute proof!
Same here.
Maybe that Texas birth certificate will become useful after all...
I just stepped out of the Sacramento Convention Center where the California Republican Party's Executive Committee met today to take positions on the propositions appearing on the May 19 Special Election Ballot.
The Executive Committee overwhelmingly voted to oppose Propositions 1A - 1F. The greatest attention of course has been directed at Proposition 1A, which if passed would impose a cap on state spending but also extends recently enacted tax increases for an additional two years. As always, Republicans remain opposed to the high taxes that make it more difficult for families to get by, increase incentives for people and employers to move out of state, and usually fail to produce anticipated revenue.
California's tax burden is higher than the national average and so is its unemployment rate. Texas, by contrast, enjoys lower taxes and an unemployment rate significantly lower than the national average. The lesson is clear (except to Democrats): high taxes and big, annoying government drives jobs and opportunities elsewhere.
Republicans have long understood that out of control spending generated by a Democrat-dominated legislature with the "power of the purse" directly contributes to the state's perpetual budget deficits. That's why Republicans have consistently pushed for caps on state spending and a bigger budget reserve to reduce the pressure for tax increases. Democrats, by contrast, have consistently opposed spending caps and instead offer only one tax increase after another.
Incredibly, the Democrats have now proposed even more taxes and spending beyond those recently enacted, including a plastic bag tax, a marijuana tax, a tax on markers and spray paint, and their usual tricks to make it easier to raise taxes in the future.
We've already moved to take action to promote the Republican Party's recommendations on the May 19 propositions. In just the last few minutes our website's main page has been replaced to emphasize our recommendations on these ballot measures. Visit cagop.org and you'll see what I mean. Downloadable voter guides and related information will be available beginning Tuesday.
Thank you for your leadership and work in putting Republican ideas into action.
All the best,
Ron Nehring
CHAIRMAN, California Republican Party
bttt
Proves nothing.
There are folks in all 57 states that want to strangle you.
Well, it’s better than nuttin.’
But how many people ever go to the CA GOP website?
Time will tell.
wow. Hang tough .
after further review , I’ll go all No as well.
(meanwhile, the CTA spews out their "YES" propaganda as the CRP fiddled)
Thanks... you are correct. Not sure how I got that number, LOL
(meanwhile, the CTA spews out their "YES" propaganda as the CRP fiddled)
Yup! With Arnold fully on board.
I loved Jerry Brown's reasoning for backing it. It will make the Governor's job easier if he has more money to spend. GRRRRRRRRRR!
Shhheee. Nascar is on FOX
You will need a scanning electron microscope to find it. The CA repubs could hold a convention in a phone booth and have room left for a gang bang.
Darned extremists L0L
Thanks for the Nascar reminder.I’m votin’ no on all the CA ballot measures but I havn’t gotten anything in the mail yet.
I live in rural Monterey county & we have to vote absentee (no precinct). Perhaps they’re holding off on sending ‘em to registered Pubbies so as to assure more yes votes.
They’ve done it before in other elections.
You got a cup? I never got a cup. WTF?
We got a voter pamphlet in the mail yesterday and I was stunned...
Dude.
You got to hang with the goat.
We can only give out so many cups each year.
I don't even have a cup. I designed the damn graphics and I don't have a cup.
Chill!
1F - Vote YES if you do NOT want legislator pay raises (during budget deficits)
Prop 1F is about NO PAY RAISES FOR LEGISLATORS in the year WHEN THERE IS NO BALANCED BUDGET - VOTE YES for NO.
Zip a dee doo dah!!
Hey, there are 3480 FReepers registered in the “California” locale. Assuming half are trolls or have moved out since, we still are near 2000 :)
Pretty hard to voted to tax yourself MORE in this day and age.
Well, I don’t need them to tell me to oppose these POS initiatives, but it is nice to see them taking a stand.
I disagree. Off the top of my head, here are a few reasons why:
1) I don't believe that legislator's salaries are excessive given the level of experience and knowledge I want them to have.NO ON PROP 1F2) I don't want legislators who fight against tax increases and outrageous spending to be penalized. In the last go around, I'd like everyone of those Republicans who stood firm to get a raise and for the Democrats, Maldonado, Villines, and the rest of the turncoats to be thrown out entirely.
3) The amount of money you are talking about is peanuts relative to the billions in budget issues that they are passing, or more importantly stopping from passage.
4) If you read the fine print, you find that the administration can overrun the budget and run the rainy fund dry, something that is in the administration's control, not the legislature's. In such a case, this measure would penalize the legislators not those who caused the problem.
It's a silly, juvenile measure to make voters feel good by punishing "those evil legsilators" when only some of those legislator's are not doing what voters want.
I never thought they’d vote for bonds for hi-speed-rail and bike trails, but they did. ;-)
Of course, bonds are freeeeeeeeeee! /s
Plus each one of them allows a raping of a different part of the revenue from CA taxes.
Vote “Yes” if you want “No” — you gotta love the illiterates who write these ballot measures. Is it a plot to secretly pass things?
My general rule of thumb is to vote “NO” on every single ballot measure. There are a few good exceptions like Prop 13, Parental notification, Prop 8 — but not very many.
I have gotten a pamphlet but no absentee ballot yet, I usually vote absentee, and I live in Amador county. However, I can, and will, go to my polling place and vote if no ballot shows up.
Of course, bonds are freeeeeeeeeee! /s
Make me realy LOL with that one!
Actually in this case it is vote no if you want no. The 1F measure should be voted out also. I am voting no on all of them. Hopefully they will all fail.
The CA repubs could hold a convention in a phone booth and have room left for a gang bang.
Hey, my wife and I are Cali Republicans and between the
two of us we can certainly fill a phone booth.
hehe!
Prop 1C has to be the most fiscally irresponsible ballot measure ever conceived. The current lottery is not extracting enough lucre from the populace, so we are going to “borrow” against future lottery revenues and spend it today! Guess what happens when, 5 or 10 years down the road, there isn’t enough lottery money AND we’ve already borrowed those revenues? Are we going to do it again ad infinitum?
The fiscal insanity has to stop NOW.
But I figure this will be couched as “for the chillun’s education” and the dopey electorate will pass it because of their complete economic illiteracy.
I'm surprised that the CSEA hasn't pulled out all the stops to get these props passed.
I haven't seen much here in San Diego.
I read that absentee ballots are scheduled to come in the mail this week.
Make me realy LOL with that one!
I think it is largely true (sadly). Suddenly voters are upset about raising taxes $16 billion (about $8 billion/year). But over the past 5 years, they have passed $60+ billion in bonds (or approx double that number if you consider interest payment over time.)
Bottom line: Voters are stupid. :-(
I hope you wrong about it passing -- but agree with you on the economic illiteracy
... but why did you limit the description to "economic"? ;-)
* Paid for by Budget Reform Now, A Coalition of Taxpayers, Business, Labor, Educators, Public Safety, Seniors, Jerry Perenchio and Governor Schwarzenegger's California Dream Team, a ballot measure committee - Yes on 1A through 1F"
I can't remember one where there was a cost to me and I voted yes on it......hmmmmmmm, all this thinking is making me hungry!
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