Why I'm Voting "NO" on Prop. 16 - No, Really!
Sometimes, I really, really, REALLY hate ballot initiatives.
Case in point? Proposition 16. Easily one of the most bullshit-named initiatives we've got - the "Taxpayers Right to Vote Act." This is one of the most misleading titles ever because...taxpayers already have the right to vote on any socialization of the power system in their area right now! Go ask the hippies in San Francisco if you're not sure (where public power has been voted on 8 times and lost, each time.)
This wasn't easy, because I absolutely hate the self-appointed violent Stalinist "activists" who support so-called "public power." They don't really care about anything but their ideology, and aren't afraid to use violence and death threats to enforce their political correctness on others.
So why, then would I ally myself on the same side as these clowns? Simple. "Two Thirds" vote requirements are bullshit, plain and simple. The idea that a ballot measure could get 65% of the vote and still lose??? That's tyrannical. Our legislature wallows in dysfunction, and local governments have a Hell of a time getting things done because of similar laws and it's all because a few radical ideologues in Sacramento hate local governments and want to hurt them as much as possible.
Hence, I'm voting Hell NO on this thing since I hate 2/3rds rules as a matter of general principle. Besides, the money PG&E spent to put this thing on the ballot could have gone to many better things.
I think it's also time California re-think the idea of "Ballot Measures." It has devolved from the people's way to counter balance corporate influence into an ATM for companies willing to buy the signatures and write self-serving laws that benefit only them. Epic grassroots power FAIL.
(Oh also, vote no on 17, which is a bid by those plutocrats at Mercury Insurance to jack up your rates. They suck too!)
