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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The Democrat establishment was sound asleep.
Like Trump v. Hillary in 2016.
No problem...
After the California GOP spends millions for a second vote, the Democrats will win the same Proposition by 40%!
Liberals vote liberal irrespective of the consequences.
While I certainly agree with that, it took the stste 15 days to even count their votes and the governor demanding that additional votes be “found”, suggesting that only democrat ballots be cured. Thats pretty much the charge against DJT in GA.
So yeah...there is a huge “stolen” element here. I don’t know if they do recounts on bond issues but it sure sounds like they need to do one here. IF you can find any body honest enough to do it.
You forgot the other reason they like to spend money. Whatever they spend, a portion of it makes its way into friends and relatives' pockets, as well as their own.
Think Solyndra. All that spending went into Democrat pockets.
We can’t hang all of California’s problems on Newsom or the Calif government. Voters are still behind them.
You mean like all the voters in AZ who voted for Hobbs and all the 90 million Americans who voted for Biden?
that is the case in almost all jurisdictions
I lived in California for 50+ years before moving out of state five years ago. From where I lived in the state, I know exactly what I speak of. It’s a state full of people that will be so easily able to herd up into boxcars.
Money down the crapper.
No surprise; the votes were counted for two weeks ... until Newsom the Vile’s latest attack on California citizens “passed”.
“that is the case in almost all jurisdictions”
You are of course correct and therefore I attribute our state of affairs as much to voters as the leaders.
Most baffling is why our borders are so open.
***to fund treatment and housing for homeless people with a mental illness or substance-use disorder. ***
Going back to the 1960s when Gov. Edmund Brown started closing the mental hospitals and dumping the inmates on the streets. A program sadly continued by Reagan and Gov “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown. They have now come full circle.
I not think, there is as much voter fraud, as some other people think, but when they keep counting and recounting, when they fix discarded votes, founding some lost ballots, etc.
then the fraud is obvious.
Counting and re-counting until they get the desired results!
“Not my money!”
Not yet, anyway. If the CA government gets its way, that will change.
I wouldn’t trust Newsome with a .25 cents to put in the jukebox, much less billions of dollars in bond funds.
When you consider the fact that the Blue urban areas are who control everything, the fact that this was a narrow win is a big deal.
Yeah, I saw it. Grrrrr...
I wonder how this bodes for November, and what they thought they stood to gain by publicly admitting how close the vote was.
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