February 5, 2008 Presidential Primary Election

NO ON PROPOSITION 91 -- Transportation Funds

The League supports stable funding for transportation projects, but Proposition 91 is not the way to provide it. Measures like this remove the flexibility that our representatives need in crafting state budgets, especially in difficult times. Even the proponents of Prop 91 urge a NO vote on this measure, recognizing that its aims were accomplished by Prop 1A of 2006.

NO ON PROPOSITION 92 -- Community Colleges: Funding, Governance, Fees

Proposition 92 locks in new constitutional provisions that would mandate increased spending on K-14 education without regard to the overall state budget situation. It doesn’t provide new revenues and thus it threatens our ability to address the state’s other pressing needs. The League respects supporters’ desire for adequate, stable funding and improved governance in the community college system. However, we cannot support further restrictions on the state’s ability to fund all the programs that serve Californians, especially in our tight budget times.

This initiative, by itself, makes relatively minor changes to the structure of legislative term limits. Without a package that includes reform of the redistricting process, it does not achieve meaningful improvement of the functioning of our state legislature.

Because League positions do not cover the issues in PROPS 94 through 97, Referenda on Amendments to Indian Gaming Compacts, the LWVC is taking no stand on those measures.

VOTE ON FEBRUARY 5