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Welcome to Robyn Nordell's Conservative California Election Website
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VOTER INFO FOR IMPORTANT MAY 19, 2009 CA. STATEWIDE SPECIAL ELECTION!
VOTER HELPS for L.A. COUNTY ELECTIONS
Craig Huey’s Election Forum
LA Voter Guide
Robyn’s LA County Recommendation:
TERESA HERNANDEZ for 32nd Congressional District
MAY 19, 2009 CA. STATEWIDE SPECIAL ELECTION
There are SIX Very Important Propositions on the Ballot!
Robyn Nordell Recommends
OPPOSING ALL 6 MAY 19, 2009 STATE PROPOSITIONS
Vote NO on Propositions 1A through 1F!
PROPS 1A - 1F ARE ALSO OPPOSED BY:
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform; Assemblyman Chuck DeVore; Senator Ray Haynes; California Republican Assembly (CRA); Capitol Resource Institute; Campaign for Children and Families; Election Forum – Craig Huey; California Republican Party; Orange County Republican Party; Orange County Lincoln Club/Red County; Jon Fleischman of Flash Report; Eagle Forum of CA; Traditional Values Coalition; California Taxpayer Protection Committee; Steve Frank of California Political News and Views; Frank Kacer of Christian Citizenship Council; and Craig Alexander's Pics
DOWNLOADABLE VOTER GUIDES & VOTING WEBINAR
a) Americans for Tax Reform-May 19 Proposition Analysis
DOWNLOADABLE VOTING GUIDE
b) Capitol Resource Institute‘s Recommendations on May 2009 Propositions
DOWNLOADABLE VOTER GUIDE
c) California Republican Party - California Special Election–May 19, 2009
DOWNLOADABLE OFFICAL REPUBLICAN VOTER GUIDE
d) Campaign for Children and Families–California Statewide Special Election
DOWNLOADABLE VOTER GUIDE
CCF Podcast: Why we recommend voting "no" on all six measures (38:07)
Listen NOW | Listen LATER (right click link to download and save MP3 file)
e) California Republican Assembly of Kern County-Special Election
Posted by Ken Mettler, President of the CRA
DOWNLOADABLE MAY 19 SPECIAL ELECTION VOTING GUIDE
f) Election Forum’s FREE WEBINAR-Online Election Seminar
May 19, 2009 California Special Election – Propositions 1A – 1F
Listen to Craig Huey discuss and recommend "how to best vote from a conservative Christian worldview in this 1-hour webinar presentation."
1) Mark Landsbaum, OC Register, Sunday, April 26, 2009
May 19 propositions a bad gamble. The roster of Sacramento-backed measures in next month's special election illustrates what's wrong in state government."
Excerpts: "The ballot measures are deceptive and manipulative. They are too costly. They are counterproductive. They reward past bad behavior. They encourage future bad behavior. They propose short-term faux fixes rather than genuine long-term solutions. And they completely ignore what's most dysfunctional about state government, the addiction to spending."
"These propositions insult hardworking, taxpaying people who pay the government's bills. If passed, they would be windfalls for people paid with those hardworking taxpayers' money."
"There's no good reason voters should trust a solution for overspending that was written by legislators with an impeccable record of overspending. None of these propositions addresses the bloated government establishment, or its myriad programs and operations. Rather than deceptive tax increases, phony promises and more fast-shuffle accounting, it's time – well past time – to pare back the size and scope of state government."
2) Howard Jarvis Tax Association
HJTA’S – "Vote NO on Proposition 1A – The $16 Billion Tax Increase"
Excerpts: "In February of 2009, the California Legislature voted to make California taxpayers the highest taxed people in the country for the next two years. Claiming that the higher taxes were needed to fix the budget mess (a mess they created themselves), these politicians raised our income and sales taxes, and nearly doubled the dreaded car tax"
"Prop. 1A would more than DOUBLE the taxes that have already been imposed this year. Here is what is important about Proposition 1A: Masked behind a phony spending limit is an extension of the massive tax increase just approved. Prop. 1A means an additional two years, for a total of 4 years of record high taxes. That's another $16 billion of your money!"
"Unless we defeat Proposition 1A, these higher taxes will cost the average California family over $1,100 per year. That's right, higher sales taxes, higher income taxes, higher car taxes and more taxes if you have children."
3) Lewis K. Uhler, President, National Tax Limitation Committee
Flash Report, April 3, 2009
Vote NO on 1A The "Spending Cap" Measure (Prop 1A) is NOT Effective Medicine for Taxpayers
4) Ray Haynes, Flash Report, 3-25-2009
"May Ballot Props - A Really Bad Deal"
5) Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform, Flash Report, April 6, 2009
"Plenty to Dislike in 1A – Americans for Tax Reform Says VOTE NO on May Ballot Propositions"
Norquist Excerpts:
"Proposition 1A will increase taxes.
Proposition 1A has a phony ‘spending cap’ that provides no real limits to government overspending.
And if the government actually hits the "spending cap" all tax monies go into a slush fund to be spent from there.
What is not to hate?"...
"Passage of Prop 1A would enable this overspending problem to continue. Worse, it will allow the politicians to pretend they have ‘solved’ the problem and they will have forced voters to ‘do it to themselves.’ The politicians created this crisis. They want voters to vote themselves guilty and to vote to punish themselves with higher taxes."
6) "The Claremont Institute Grades the Propositions"
Claremont Institute’s Summary
Claremont Institute’s Full Report
7) Assemblyman Chuck DeVore OPPOSES ALL 6 Propositions
"VOTE NO 6 TIMES" - http://votenosixtimes.com/r/
Special Election in California May 19th
"I am voting "no" on all six ballot measures. As a member of the California Republican Party’s Initiatives Committee, I also voted in favor of opposing all six measures, a stance the state party formally adopted the day after the Initiatives Committee vote."
PROP 1A
How THEY describe it: "STATE BUDGET. CHANGES CALIFORNIA BUDGET PROCESS.
LIMITS STATE SPENDING. INCREASES "RAINY DAY" BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND."
DeVore: "THE TRUTH: Prop. 1A is the most important measure. It would extend the largest state tax hike in U.S. history by an additional two years. This is not mentioned in the ballot arguments because the legislative leadership chose to ignore the ballot argument I submitted against this measure (I was one of only five Republicans in the legislature to oppose this measure on the floor). Prop. 1A, a weak, loophole-ridden budget reform measure, is twinned with a huge and hidden tax extension – this is dishonest and should not be rewarded."
PROPS 1B – 1E
How THEY describe it: EDUCATION FUNDING. PAYMENT PLAN; PROPOSITION; LOTTERY MODERNIZATION ACT; CHILDREN’S SERVICES FUNDING; HEALTH SERVICES FUNDING
DeVore: "THE TRUTH: Measures 1B through 1E amount to a shuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic – they do nothing to reform government so it can live within our means to support it."
PROP 1F
How THEY describe it: ELECTED OFFICIALS’ SALARIES. PREVENTS PAY INCREASES DURING BUDGET DEFICIT YEARS.
DeVore: "THE TRUTH: Beware of Prop. 1F, it supposedly prevents pay increases for lawmakers during a budget deficit. The law of unintended consequences says that lawmakers may simply vote to increase taxes to try to erase any deficit and keep their pay increases."
8) Craig Alexander’s Analysis of Props 1A – 1F
Craig's Pics" - May 19, 2009 Special Election
Craig is an attorney, knowledgeable activist, Orange County Rep. Central Committee member, CA Rep. Party delegate, state CRA officer, Chairman of CRA’s O.C. Elections Committee, co-founder of a public policy ministry at his church... His recommendations are from a pro-family, pro-life, limited government/limited taxation perspective.
9) "Arnold’s Scary Stories"- O.C. Register Editorial, May 7, 2009
Governor uses fear to hype tax hikes
10) "Cynical to the max- Governor's warning of fire cuts a new low"
San Diego Union Tribune Editorial, May 7, 2009
Excerpts: "The governor warns of cuts to firefighters while trying to pressure the Legislature into passing a contract that gives unwarranted protections to 95,000 state workers in Local 1000 of the Service Employees International Union. The Legislature balks yet again at eliminating the make-work, $128,000-a-year jobs on state boards and commissions that are given to ex-lawmakers as rewards for doing the establishment's bidding. Lawmakers also reject bills to freeze the pay of state employees who make more than $150,000 a year and to scale back a hugely costly new headquarters for lottery officials."
"Even though vast change is necessary, nothing has changed. Nothing. And so we see the Sacramento establishment, with the governor leading the way, declare the challenge of finding new budget cuts to be a near-impossible task with catastrophic implications. And so we see this establishment refuse to even consider the most obvious budget solution: rolling back all the different ways the government has grown in recent years."
11) Excellent Article on Prop 1F
Bill Leonard, State Board of Equalization, 4/13/09, FlashReport
Prop 1F: A Waste of Space
"Proposition 1F was placed on the ballot by the Legislature to help a couple of legislators feel better about violating their promises not to raise taxes. This ridiculous waste of ballot space allowed some legislators to pretend that they got something in return for supporting large tax increases.
Proposition 1F does not really change anything. It prohibits constitutional officers and legislators from receiving pay raises in deficit years. The salaries for these elected officials are set by the California Citizens Compensation Commission (not the Legislature), and that Commission has never increased salaries in a deficit year anyway.
Proposition 1F does not even accomplish what it pretends to do. Pay increases, when they are authorized by the Commission, do not take effect until after the next election. So they are not likely to have any influence on any legislator's vote.
And even if this measure did influence a legislator's vote on the budget I would be very disappointed. For that would mean that some Republican or Democrat voted against their constituents' interests and their own conscience because of a potential pay raise.
I share the outrage that many voters have toward our state's dysfunctional budget process. I do not believe that "deficit years" should be allowed to exist at all, since our spending should decline whenever revenues decline. However, Proposition 1F does nothing to improve that situation. All it does is allow a few legislators to pretend that they got something valuable in return for breaking their campaign promises. We get to pay tens of billions of dollars in new taxes while they brag that future legislators might not get raises, maybe.
I would urge a "NO" vote on Proposition 1F."
GENERAL ELECTION/POLITICAL RESOURCES
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Smart Voter - Basic Info on Local Candidates & Local Measures
Use SmartVoter.org with discretion, as a secondary source of information. Sometimes poor candidates/measures can look good on this site, and good candidates don't always post their information here.
POLITICAL NEWS
FOX News – Political Home Page
Townhall.com
Jon Fleischman's Flash Report
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California Family Council
Concerned Women for America (National and California)
Capitol Resource Institute
The Heritage Foundation
Home School Legal Defense Association
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About Robyn
Robyn has a passion for encouraging people to be intelligently involved in the political process, to stand up for traditional-family values, and to protect our precious constitutional freedoms. She values those candidates and legislators who operate from a pro-life, traditional values, and limited government perspective. More About Robyn
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