Ballot Blog - June 8 Statewide Election

This is how I voted... and of course, how you should too!

• Proposition 13 - Limits on property tax assessment - seismic retrofitting of existing buildings. Legislative constitutional amendment.
  YES... a straightforward fix to existing law.
  
  
• Proposition 14 - Elections. Increases right to participate in primary elections
  NO... will favor incumbents and limit voter choice.
  
  
• Proposition 15 - California fair elections act
  NO... will lead towards taxpayer funded campaign welfare, diluting free speech of private campaign funding.
  
  
• Proposition 16 - Imposes new two-thirds voter approval requirement for local public electricity providers. Initiative constitutional amendment.
  NO... 2/3 majority is an unjustified hurdle, since PG&E gets government licenses for it's monopoly.
  
  
• Proposition 17 - Allows auto insurance companies to base their prices in part on a driver's history of insurance coverage. Initiative statute.
  YES... fixes a dumb restriction in place from Prop 103.

On the candidates:

• State Superintendent of Public Schools
  Dianne A. Lenning
• Sacramento County Board of Supervisors District 1
  Keith Weber
• Sacramento County Assessor
  Kathleen E. Kelleher
• District Attorney
  Jan Scully
  
• Sacramento County Sheriff
  Bret Daniels