Posted on 03/21/2024 9:18:59 PM PDT by thecodont
California voters have narrowly approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide ballot measure, Proposition 1, which authorizes $6.4 billion in bonds to fund treatment and housing for homeless people with a mental illness or substance-use disorder.
Preliminary election results from the California Secretary of State’s website on Thursday showed that 50.2% of voters chose to approve the measure, while 49.8% voted to reject it. That represents a difference of about 29,000 votes in a race where more than 7 million people turned in a ballot.
The razor thin results defied predictions made before the state’s March 5 primary election that the measure would sail to victory. Instead, it took more than two weeks before media outlets finally called the result on Wednesday, even as the Secretary of State’s website still describes it as a “close contest” (the office has until April 12 to certify the result).
Newsom, who took a visible role in pushing the measure, celebrated the result in a social media post on Thursday. “Prop 1 is the biggest reform of the California mental health system in decades & will finally help us address the mental health crisis,” he wrote. “More community treatment centers will be built all over the state, prioritizing mental health & substance abuse support.”
But just a week ago, the Prop. 1 backers weren’t so confident. After the race remained too close to call for days, a political action committee for Newsom reportedly asked supporters to volunteer to help Democratic voters whose ballots had been disqualified. In a letter, the PAC asked supporters to volunteer to help those voters get their ballots corrected and counted — a strategy meant to ensure the measure passed.
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It will be used to house illegals.
ANYone who voted for this was either nuts or illegal... probably both.
Mindless spending for the sake of pretending to address an issue he created through lax governance.
Useless programs staffed by lazy county employees.
Another Newsom offense against the people who suffer under his misrule.
California is being led into a reproduction of what HELL must be like.
An my conservative older brother lives there and has no way of escaping.
Please God, make his come to his senses. I would take him in in a MINUTE>
Embrace the suck, Californians.
If they are 20 year bonds the cost for that 6.4 billion is astronomical. And it has to be sold at current interest rates. Remember California is running a 60 billion dollar deficit. Who in the hell wants to buy bonds from the state of California under current conditions? Investors in expecting a very high rate of return.
California is broke.
Let them use their $$$ for this. At least there may not be money for even more woke things!
I really do not care, if they are flushing THEIR money down the drain!
Not my money!
Another corrupt and stolen vote. Write the State of CA off. Hopeless. Conservatives and sane people should move out of the State pronto. It’s a lost cause. Leave it to all liberals so that it will sink into the ocean from its own Commie weight. Will become the lost state of CA, next to Atlantis, under the water forever.
I don’t agree that it’s stolen. Liberals vote liberal irrespective of the consequences. It’s like they have a selective blindness to the consequences of their actions.
Proposition 1, which authorizes $6.4 billion in mo free shit...
More harm than help/No records of where money went/no one will be held accountable/taxes or bonds will be raised to cover wasted money/ democrats will have a huge stash of funds for the next couple of election campaigns.
Rinse and repeat.
These morons think spending (wasting) money solves any problem. The more spent the better the outcome. Absolute insanity and incompetence.
Soon all California neighborhoods will have a mental ward unit and a place where deranged druggies can get a fix.
I voted no.
The only morons are those who actually believe California citizens voted for this. But the bright side is the California people are trying to fight against this stuff, meanwhile with Texas now being the biggest sea of brown in the whole country at least under Trump California and the other 48 states can send their illegals into Texas and we can cast it off into the gulf of Mexico via nuclear bombs along the northern, eastern and western state border
ping for Newsom’s unlucky subjects.
Less than 5% will go to the homeless mental patients. The rest will go the politicians and friends bank accounts.
That’s not good news… another line of charges on property tax.
No we did not vote for this. They drag out counting of the vote until they get what they want. The LEGAL citizens in CALIFORNIA have been completely stripped of their rights to vote for representative government.
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