The California Voters speak - loudly

Heh... The election results are in from yesterday's special election and boy howdy have the voters ever spoken... From the California Secretary of State's office:

• 1A "Rainy Day" Budget Stabilization Fund 34.1% Yes 65.9% No
• 1B Education Funding. Payment Plan. 37.4% Yes 62.6% No
• 1C Lottery Modernization Act 35.4% Yes 64.6% No
• 1D Children's Services Funding 34.3% Yes 65.7% No
• 1E Mental Health Funding 33.6% Yes 66.4% No
• 1F Elected Officials Salaries 73.9% Yes 26.1% No

Line item by line item: 1A - Increase the size of the state's emergency "rainy day" fund BUT allow the state to tap into it on an arbitrary basis (ie: pull them out of the financial hole they are in) 1B - Major funding increase to Education but when you read the text of the proposition, this money goes to the teachers union. Bad idea. 1C - allows the state to borrow up to $5B from future lottery funds to balance the 2009-2010 budget. 1D - "redirects" (love that word -- steals is more like it) $608 Million from the California Children and Families Program placing it in the state General Fund. 1E - same as above except $230 Million and Mental Health Care programs. 1F - Encourages balanced state budgets by preventing elected Members of the Legislature and statewide constitutional officers, including the Governor, from receiving pay raises in years when the state is running a deficit. Big government needs to be Terminated...