Another interesting perspective

I like this fellow's analyses for consideration, too.

Well, it looks like it's coming up on election time, again, so I'm going to try for a third striaght election season to blog on the Props. Yes, I read through the 119 page Voter's Guide, so YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

I'm going to try to prepare my own thoughts on each of the Props, at least one every day or so. My format, so's you know, is that everything I write down to "My Take" is an effort to be non-partisan. Some of the background is taken from the Legislative Analyst's report, but as much as possible, the analysis of what the Prop actually does is taken from the text of the bill itself.

Everything below "My Take" is blatantly partisan, biased, and purely my reaction and opinion. Read it as you would any other political position.

Prop 1A-Transportation Funding Protection.

Prop 1B-Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006

Prop 1C - Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006

Prop 1D - Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Act of 2006

Prop 1E - Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006

Interesting summary post similar to this site's compartments

I've listed out who I'm going to vote for and why, as well as how I'm going to vote on the various propositions. I'm not that thrilled about my choices for the state wide offices. Democrats keep nominating the same few people for state-wide office, and those people don't do a good job at representing my interests even though I'm a fairly liberal individual. At the same time, I don't agree at all with the Republicans, and none of the third party candidates will win.

Read his full post here.

I agreed with lots of this fellow's assessments, and liked the work Kevin Shelley did while in office on providing clearer voting clarity. Unless I hear any active counter-endorsements for Bruce McPherson, I'll follow Grant's lead on voting for Debra Bowen for Secretary of State. I think he's off a little on Prop1A (you can take a two-prong approach) and others, but if I were to post all of them this would get very long, very quickly.

Maybe he or others will participate on an item by item basis on this site?

Proposition 1E (Disaster and Flood Bond): NO

• Proposition 1E Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention
  Should the state sell $4.1 billion in general obligation bonds to finance disaster preparedness and flood prevention projects at the state and local levels?

Over $4 billion of bond debt ("without raising taxes!"). I need to research how true the need for and effectiveness of each of these are (vulnerablility of flood control structures, delta levees, etc.), but my initial vote is No. I'd also like to find out the geographical distribution this would be likely to have, and how much local projects could realistically be funded locally and how much the state government (and our state taxes) should help out with.