The only thing Californians need more than to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure is to create good union jobs. There’s one initiative on the ballot that will make it much harder to do either one. Prop 53 would harm the ability of state and local governments to build infrastructure projects and respond to emergency situations such as the drought, an earthquake or other natural disasters.
Read MoreProp 58 Prepares CA Kids for a Global Economy
When bilingual education vanished from California classrooms in 1998, so did countless opportunities for generations of students. Today, one in five California students is an English language learner and opportunities for multilingual speakers continue to flourish in the job market. It’s clearly time for a change.
Read MoreFrontline Workers Are Tackling Big Tobacco With Prop 56
As a respiratory therapist I see the devastation tobacco use causes every day. Whether I am treating a child whose smoke-filled environment triggers her asthma, or an adult with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who is still in the iron grip of nicotine addiction, the human toll of tobacco use is staggering.
Read MoreVote YES on Prop 62 to End the Death Penalty
Yes on 62 ends the failed and costly Death Penalty system, and substitutes life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Yes on 62 — is supported by a broad coalition of Californians, including the California Democratic Party and the California Labor Federation, the NAACP, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the League […]
Read MoreProposition 54: Not What it Seems
Too good to be true? Probably is. Proposition 54 is another example of the adage. Pledging to bring more transparency to the legislative process, this proposition simply provides another tool for moneyed interests to stop progressive policies in California. Sponsored by billionaire Charles Munger and wealth manager (and former legislator) Sam Blakslee, this Constitutional Amendment would require all legislation to be in print for 72 hours prior to being voted on. Any interest could sue the legislature to enforce this provision.
Read MoreVote YES on Prop 57 to Reform our Broken Criminal Justice System
Our state prisons are dangerously overcrowded, and have been taken over by the federal government. With Washington imploring Californians to come up with a plan for how to reduce our overcrowding problem, a coalition of law enforcement leaders, victims rights groups and Gov. Jerry Brown have crafted Proposition 57.
Read MoreYes on Prop 59: Make Congress Accountable
Proposition 59 gives voters a chance to tell their own member of Congress to get big money out of politics and support an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Similar measures have passed in Colorado and Montana by three-to-one margins. Money Talks In the 2014 congressional […]
Read MoreRepair our rundown schools: YES on Prop 51
It’s been a decade since California passed our last statewide school bond to repair and upgrade our public schools. That’s 10 years of students from kindergarten to college attempting to learn in schools crumbling around them. Libraries, science labs, classrooms – you name it – California schools are in dire need of an upgrade.
Read MoreProp 55 Prevents School Cuts, Keeps California Moving in Right Direction
California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.
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