PeterB

Obama (Should Say) to California: Drop Dead

The web site in my previous post was mangled. The URL is

www.couragecampaign.or...

Obama (Should Say) to California: Drop Dead

The failure of the ballot measures in California cannot purely be attributed to a refusal to pay more taxes, since the measures included future spending limitations seen as draconian by many "liberal" or left-oriented organizations. The complex measures included significant provisions anathema to each side, which probably overweighed those provisions attractive to each side, reflecting the growing extremism of politics in the state, also an apparent precursor of the same trend in national politics. As an example, I found items from two gay-rights organizations, one favoring a YES vote on most measures, the other a NO vote on most measures. See also www.couragecampaign.or... for a position listing of self-called progressive organizations, mostly opposed to the measures. Perhaps the most certain message being sent to the California political structure was to get its house in order, and actually make the budget and taxing decisions the state so sorely needs, rather than grand-standing incompatible positions, and shunting the decisions to the ballot.