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[ebonlock]

Don't know if I've mentioned this previously but for my fellow left coasters I'd like to recommend that you vote no on Proposition 16 this June during the elections. Well, unless you like the idea of PG&E being able to block smaller, greener energy companies from offering you cleaner energy at a competitive rate. In that case I guess you'd want to vote for it. Me, personally, I really dislike the idea and the fact that PG&E has already spent $35 million trying to get it passed. Oh and did I mention that at least one of the smaller green energy companies is going to be non-profit? No multi-million dollar CEO to pay and cleaner energy, what's not to like?

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[esmerel.livejournal.com]

I got a flyer that was pro prop-16 in the mail the other day, and I went "uh, what? who with any sense would vote for this?"

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I got a flyer that was pro prop-16 in the mail the other day, and I went "uh, what? who with any sense would vote for this?"

To which I can only reply with two words, "Prop 8". Who with any sense would've voted for that? And yet...

The obvious alarm bell...

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

...is the 2/3 majority requirement. Which is pretty much a recipe for paralysis (see also: California state budget). You notice they don't mention the 2/3 vote requirement in the TV ads...

The first thing that needs to happen in this state before things get better is to kill the whole business of proposition initiative voting. There's a reason we don't have direct democracy, and it's because IT DOESN'T SCALE.

Re: The obvious alarm bell...

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

The first thing that needs to happen in this state before things get better is to kill the whole business of proposition initiative voting. There's a reason we don't have direct democracy, and it's because IT DOESN'T SCALE.

OMG yes, getting rid of the proposition system would be the best possible thing for the state on so, so many levels. But I do have to love how the whole 2/3 vote thing is being billed as a voting rights issue. I have absolutely no doubt there are some tea party whack jobs who will eat this up like the good little corporatist lemmings they are.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

You can count on my "no" vote.

I'll also pass the word.