Poll Numbers Respond to Outside Events and Ballot Labels
A few ballot proposition poll numbers changed in the newly released Pepperdine University-California Business Roundtable Poll, in the two weeks since the poll’s initial release. It appears that outside events and the newly issued ballot labels may have an effect on voters. Since the issuing of the first poll, the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado occurred, […]
Small Businesses And All Voters Benefit From Prop 32
This November, voters in California will have a cluttered ballot to comb through. Once they get past the presidential race, they’re going to have to read and interpret eleven different ballot initiatives. Tax increases, budget reform, death penalty, three strikes, and genetically-altered food are just a few of the complicated issues on the ballot. Proposition […]
OBITUARY: Referendum Dies at 101
The Referendum, the once promising third child of California’s direct democracy who spent much of her life in the shadow of her brother Initiative, died in late June on the floor of the Capitol. She was 101. No autopsy was ordered, despite signs of foul play. But family members said she was effectively killed by […]
Support Rural California
Most Californians live in big cities and sprawling suburbs, and are increasingly familiar with nanny state and local government bureaucracies that ban everything from foam food containers to plastic bags, indoor tanning by minors to donated clothing drop boxes, and prevent restaurants from giving out toys to kids or selling fois gras to diners. But […]