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Wednesday, November 03, 2004Non-baseball: Not so sorry after allLast night I called the California election results "sorry". Well, when I woke up this morning things were looking a bit sunnier. Prop. 66 (3-strikes limitations) looked sure to pass when I decided to hit the sack, but now that all the votes are in it has gone down to a fairly decisive defeat. The people of California also defeated prop. 72 (health care coverage requirements), albeit by a shockingly close margin of 49.1-50.9. Both tribal gaming propositions were laughed out of the booth as well. On the other hand, prop. 71 (stem cell research) passed rather easily. I don't particularly care about the moral implications, but I do care about $6 billion in new spending and the ever-expanding bureaucracy that come along with it. Prop. 69 (DNA database) also passed by a huge margin. I know nothing about law, so I could be completely mistaken, but collecting DNA from someone who hasn't even been charged with a crime doesn't sound like it's going to hold up in a court challenge. And, of course, the people of California have returned Barbara Boxer to the Senate. Ugh. But perhaps the most depressing result from last night is the fact that several million people who voted yes on Prop. 60 (closed primary) also voted yes on Prop. 62 (open primary)- two propositions that were completely contradictory. That doesn't reflect well on our state. Complete results here. |
