All good idea "give crooked politicians" more money is pure insanity. Until we have honest elections, remove waste and fraud along with the criminal politicians, its a hard NO!
I DONT SUPPORT ANY FUNDING BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. FRAUD IS RAMPANT AND WE NEED NEW LEADSHIP WITH AN EYE TO ALL THE NEEDS LISTED IN CALIFORNIA CURRENT.
In the past we have voted for special purpose propositions that have passed and very soon afterwards the state legislature has voted to take those funds and put them into the General Fund so that they can spend that money on whatever they want. The Gasoline Tax increase proposition from several cycles ago is a good example of that. That money was supposed to be used for improving our roads. I don’t trust the Democrat Super Majority of this state. They lie, cheat, and steal our money. 🤮
Are you insane? You list so many negatives, and ignore the causes and people who created the mess. California isn’t broke - it’s been run into the ground by bureaucracies, diversion of adequate funds to unsupported projects, and plain fraud. Why in the world would we vote to feed the monster?!?
Like everything, CEQA is a bit of good and a bit of bad. Probably more bad than good but I support CEQA when it forstalls solar energy projects, ultra dense housing, more bike lanes, windmills and other projects that spend billions to lower the quality of life in California. I fear that expedited approval of foolish projects will have the additional consequence of shifting resources and budgets away from more important projects with real rather than imagined benefit for Californians. I will be voting no on 45.
How about this. The original CEQA language stated if you were to do a project to increase density you had to have among other things enough off street parking to match per bedroom, and you had to have enough street capacity to handle increased traffic because of increased density. That was written by the Democrat majority.
That language was taken out of CEQA and no longer demands parking and street capacity. Who took that out? The Democrat majority.
Why? Because of sanctuary laws, encouraging illegals, and the ever expanding Soviet style welfare that says "sure come on down" if you cannot afford the State we'll steal tax money from the producers. The Demo majority says we'll find a way for taxpayer subsidized housing, long term welfare checks, and then when that runs out we wring our hands and state how can you not be compassionate?
We need more housing? RHNA is questionable in the legal sense. Refer above to the CEQA game.
Who demanded more prisons? The Demo majority? Why? Simple the State was faced with increasing felons in State prisons, so they said you (read that as taxpayers) have to take a fair share of the bad boys because it is making the State budget look really bad.
Sure let's streamline projects so the late not so great State of Calif. can continue to exceed capacity, hammer natural resources, and increase taxes.
As long as you advertise for illegals 'come on down' with the attendant cost of welfare and housing. As long as you advertise for those who cannot make it without welfare. As long, as long, as long. Get it the Soviet state is broken. 5-10 Central Planning by the Soviet planners in Sacramento can never ever catch up with their insanity. (but we have to be compassionate)
Luddites failed. Staling failed (still kept his dictatorship). Mao failed. The Pilgrims failed.
I state when you look at San Jose (do you know the way?) When you look at L.A. (Colorado where is my water?) If you don't get it by now Prop. 45 is a failure before it is passed.
Since I live in Santa Barbara I'll finish with this. Mayor Lodge promised if State St. narrowing did not work she would reto-fit. Did her promise come true?? Who planned this? The Demo majority. What makes you think anything out of Sacramento of from this party will succeed?
I'm a "NO" on this Lou. The money will be diverted and never go to what is promised. Happens every time. Lucy pulls the ball up on Charley Brown and he/we never learn. John
We Conservatives cannot agree on Prop 45; I am a hard NO! With all the nagatives with 45, I cannot vote with y'all. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?; perhaps, but I have to vote my conscience.
Our Party is so divisive; all the Chad Bianco voters went vitriol if I did not join them; I am for Steve Hilton from the beginning; watched Chad and Steve in every debate; heard Bianco say he would NOT support Steve should he win. Told me everything I needed to know about him! If the butt hurt Bianco supporters do not vote for Hilton on Nov 3, they will deserve every fall out coming. VOTE RED or CA is DEAD!
Vote NO on Prop 45. Using a proposition for a complex issue seems on the far side of ridiculous. All of the issues in this proposition should be addressed by the legislature. If Sacramento doesn't act, well, sometimes you have to let someone crash before they'll accept help... or we could elect people that want to promote less regulation.
Trying to legislate from the voting booth is a good way to make things worse. Propositions should be limited to simple yes/no issues that can be expressed in a short paragraph. CEQA itself should be reformed through the legislative process. They'll probably screw it up--with government union support--but we can hope.
I left Ca for 3 years, decided to come back and continue my fight against corrupt politicians like Newscum, and PRAY to our Lord for HIs help against evil.
Interesting discussion and it looks like Prop 45 is a yes. Isn’t it interesting how often Republicans always refer back to Obama/Biden by topic? During the Obama/Biden years, detention facilities had open oversight….and there were no deaths at those facilities as we are seeing now, where immigrants are denied medication.
We also did not see 87 year old women being deported as will happen this week, or immigrant children under 5 years old standing before a judge (!) with no legal representation…because conveniently there are not enough immigration attorneys available. How can that be defended?
Wouldn't it have been nice or better if Biden did hot open the borders to 10 million un-vetted illegal aliens? It is as if you set fire to a building then complain that the firemen got your cat wet.
Of course. And on X we hammered Biden for immigration issues and I have no problem deporting immigrants….but HOW it’s done is an issue. For starters…the bigoted/racist comments from Trump that they all criminals “but some are very nice people” sounded great…but in reality even a parking ticket by an immigrant classifies them as a “Criminal” but only 5% of immigrants deported had criminal records.
However now that ICE has decided to use electrified gloves to subdue immigrants, does that sound like a good idea to you?
Here is a a story you won’t hear in the news because ICE does not have cameras, identification and are masked and there is NO oversight.
Our Hispanic friend, Sandra has a neighbor who was working in his front yard when two SUVs pull up, and four masked men jump out and tackle the man! His wife runs out of the house screaming “He was a US Marine! He was born in the US!” MISTAKEN IDENTITY! ICE drives away with no comment.
In fact every illegal immigrant is by definition a criminal. Your number of 5% deportees having criminal records does not jive with anything I can corroborate. Where did you get this number and what is the definition of criminal record?
I approve of electrified gloves only on the condition that they are charged strictly by renewable carbon neutral sources. I'm sure we are on the same page on this one.
As far as your secret uncorroborated third person account of a rumor confirmed by fortune cookie is concerned, there is ample room to be dubious.
By the way, Jeff. Can you explain why we are only seeing immigrants being arrested, and not employers who hire them? There are thousands of undocumented immigrants in North County, working as nannies, gardeners, cooks, housekeepers in Rancho Santa Fe, alone. And yet none of those employers have been cited and charged. Why is that?
I get it. If you don’t like what you hear, just suggest it’s uncorroborated third person! Nice technique. You can go online right now and find masked and unidentified ICE tackling unarmed people who are Americans, with mistaken identity.
However, none of this matters now. In 35 days we are going to see how Americans feel about the Trump administration, ICE, the Iranian war, and all of the economic issues people are dealing with in America.
Three words: Trump derangement syndrome. Obama deported ten million illegals and not a peep out of the bleeding heart people. Now Trump deports a half a million and it's the end of the world.
If that’s true, it’s terrible. ICE should not be in local jurisdictions. Local police and sheriffs who know our towns SHOULD be executing warrants for ALL criminals - citizens and not. If the criminal aliens were deported, support for ICE would disappear overnight.
So now you want a demonize me … telling me I have Trump arrangement syndrome and am a liberal? Good luck with that one. I’ve been republican for decades and never changed it. I’ll look for you November 4 and you can tell me how many Americans are uncomfortable with an unwinnable war created by Donald Trump, high gas prices, farmers going bankrupt, and high cost of living.
I have not changed my mind on my opinion of you; you sound so angry; but I'd bet money you must love the Biden and his evil administration: illegally mandating the bioweapon clot shots for everyone BUT Congress, the Postal employees and ILLEGALS! Trump is loved the world over; best POTUS of many lifetimes, for sure. You are welcome to take as many clot shots as you wish AND hate on Trump, but as for me and my family it's God, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and POTUS Trump!
I understand you love Trump and want to demonize anyone who is uncomfortable with Trump decisions, but when you added “the rule of law” to your statement….it’s going to be interesting to see how Americans feel about Trump in 35 days and in 2027, we’ll see the upcoming subpoenas and how many in Trump’s administration have broken Constitutional laws. Tootles.
I think y'all are being a little too hard on Wickstrom. A quick glance at his Substack Subscription list proves sources for everything he's posted (with the exception of his political affiliation):
- Activist Futurism
- The Capitalist
- Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
- The Daily
- The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump
- Letters from an American
- PoliticusUSA
My understanding is the sites are all free from corporate, billionaire, and Republican bias. So, if he had an original thought, you could attack him. However, in this case, you really need to hold off.
Nice try, Jim. The ACLU at the time said Obama had one of the worst policies regarding detention of illegal immigrants. Maybe you conveniently forgot but they literally used cages to hold the children and their families.
Oh, I’m not denying that Obama had immigrant families in cages, as you say…but I don’t think Obama is president now, is he? What is true is that hundreds of immigrant children as young as four years old continue to face immigration judges, and recently some did not have legal representation. Nice planning, right?
During Donald Trump’s first administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acknowledged that it was unable to reach or account for 1,475 unaccompanied migrant children during a specific check-in period in 2018, while separate family separation policies led to over 5,000 children being separated from their parents, with hundreds remaining hard to reunite.
Again, we’ll see how Americans will judge Trump’s immigration policies in 35 days.
Can't do it. CA is so corrupt; some portion of the funds raised would most certainly be used to reelect democrats, and we all can see the damage their policies have done. NO ON PROP 45
All good idea "give crooked politicians" more money is pure insanity. Until we have honest elections, remove waste and fraud along with the criminal politicians, its a hard NO!
I DONT SUPPORT ANY FUNDING BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. FRAUD IS RAMPANT AND WE NEED NEW LEADSHIP WITH AN EYE TO ALL THE NEEDS LISTED IN CALIFORNIA CURRENT.
In the past we have voted for special purpose propositions that have passed and very soon afterwards the state legislature has voted to take those funds and put them into the General Fund so that they can spend that money on whatever they want. The Gasoline Tax increase proposition from several cycles ago is a good example of that. That money was supposed to be used for improving our roads. I don’t trust the Democrat Super Majority of this state. They lie, cheat, and steal our money. 🤮
Are you insane? You list so many negatives, and ignore the causes and people who created the mess. California isn’t broke - it’s been run into the ground by bureaucracies, diversion of adequate funds to unsupported projects, and plain fraud. Why in the world would we vote to feed the monster?!?
Perhaps this proposition is another Trojan Horse for Soros-Democratic takeover of our beloved state.
Seems likely..
Like everything, CEQA is a bit of good and a bit of bad. Probably more bad than good but I support CEQA when it forstalls solar energy projects, ultra dense housing, more bike lanes, windmills and other projects that spend billions to lower the quality of life in California. I fear that expedited approval of foolish projects will have the additional consequence of shifting resources and budgets away from more important projects with real rather than imagined benefit for Californians. I will be voting no on 45.
How about this. The original CEQA language stated if you were to do a project to increase density you had to have among other things enough off street parking to match per bedroom, and you had to have enough street capacity to handle increased traffic because of increased density. That was written by the Democrat majority.
That language was taken out of CEQA and no longer demands parking and street capacity. Who took that out? The Democrat majority.
Why? Because of sanctuary laws, encouraging illegals, and the ever expanding Soviet style welfare that says "sure come on down" if you cannot afford the State we'll steal tax money from the producers. The Demo majority says we'll find a way for taxpayer subsidized housing, long term welfare checks, and then when that runs out we wring our hands and state how can you not be compassionate?
We need more housing? RHNA is questionable in the legal sense. Refer above to the CEQA game.
Who demanded more prisons? The Demo majority? Why? Simple the State was faced with increasing felons in State prisons, so they said you (read that as taxpayers) have to take a fair share of the bad boys because it is making the State budget look really bad.
Sure let's streamline projects so the late not so great State of Calif. can continue to exceed capacity, hammer natural resources, and increase taxes.
As long as you advertise for illegals 'come on down' with the attendant cost of welfare and housing. As long as you advertise for those who cannot make it without welfare. As long, as long, as long. Get it the Soviet state is broken. 5-10 Central Planning by the Soviet planners in Sacramento can never ever catch up with their insanity. (but we have to be compassionate)
Luddites failed. Staling failed (still kept his dictatorship). Mao failed. The Pilgrims failed.
I state when you look at San Jose (do you know the way?) When you look at L.A. (Colorado where is my water?) If you don't get it by now Prop. 45 is a failure before it is passed.
Since I live in Santa Barbara I'll finish with this. Mayor Lodge promised if State St. narrowing did not work she would reto-fit. Did her promise come true?? Who planned this? The Demo majority. What makes you think anything out of Sacramento of from this party will succeed?
Thought provoking article....
so well stated.
I'm a "NO" on this Lou. The money will be diverted and never go to what is promised. Happens every time. Lucy pulls the ball up on Charley Brown and he/we never learn. John
We Conservatives cannot agree on Prop 45; I am a hard NO! With all the nagatives with 45, I cannot vote with y'all. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?; perhaps, but I have to vote my conscience.
Our Party is so divisive; all the Chad Bianco voters went vitriol if I did not join them; I am for Steve Hilton from the beginning; watched Chad and Steve in every debate; heard Bianco say he would NOT support Steve should he win. Told me everything I needed to know about him! If the butt hurt Bianco supporters do not vote for Hilton on Nov 3, they will deserve every fall out coming. VOTE RED or CA is DEAD!
No on any funding period for California to much fraud stealing $ from the people no period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We vote Yes, No some Props & Nothing gets done IR Prop 45
Nothing done
Yet each year rainfall water ends up in Ocean vs tanks etc for reuse
Damn CA Dem Machine
Vote NO on Prop 45. Using a proposition for a complex issue seems on the far side of ridiculous. All of the issues in this proposition should be addressed by the legislature. If Sacramento doesn't act, well, sometimes you have to let someone crash before they'll accept help... or we could elect people that want to promote less regulation.
Trying to legislate from the voting booth is a good way to make things worse. Propositions should be limited to simple yes/no issues that can be expressed in a short paragraph. CEQA itself should be reformed through the legislative process. They'll probably screw it up--with government union support--but we can hope.
So glad I moved to Florida in January where our utility rates are very low and our roads are beautiful
I left Ca for 3 years, decided to come back and continue my fight against corrupt politicians like Newscum, and PRAY to our Lord for HIs help against evil.
Interesting discussion and it looks like Prop 45 is a yes. Isn’t it interesting how often Republicans always refer back to Obama/Biden by topic? During the Obama/Biden years, detention facilities had open oversight….and there were no deaths at those facilities as we are seeing now, where immigrants are denied medication.
We also did not see 87 year old women being deported as will happen this week, or immigrant children under 5 years old standing before a judge (!) with no legal representation…because conveniently there are not enough immigration attorneys available. How can that be defended?
Wouldn't it have been nice or better if Biden did hot open the borders to 10 million un-vetted illegal aliens? It is as if you set fire to a building then complain that the firemen got your cat wet.
Of course. And on X we hammered Biden for immigration issues and I have no problem deporting immigrants….but HOW it’s done is an issue. For starters…the bigoted/racist comments from Trump that they all criminals “but some are very nice people” sounded great…but in reality even a parking ticket by an immigrant classifies them as a “Criminal” but only 5% of immigrants deported had criminal records.
However now that ICE has decided to use electrified gloves to subdue immigrants, does that sound like a good idea to you?
Here is a a story you won’t hear in the news because ICE does not have cameras, identification and are masked and there is NO oversight.
Our Hispanic friend, Sandra has a neighbor who was working in his front yard when two SUVs pull up, and four masked men jump out and tackle the man! His wife runs out of the house screaming “He was a US Marine! He was born in the US!” MISTAKEN IDENTITY! ICE drives away with no comment.
In fact every illegal immigrant is by definition a criminal. Your number of 5% deportees having criminal records does not jive with anything I can corroborate. Where did you get this number and what is the definition of criminal record?
I approve of electrified gloves only on the condition that they are charged strictly by renewable carbon neutral sources. I'm sure we are on the same page on this one.
As far as your secret uncorroborated third person account of a rumor confirmed by fortune cookie is concerned, there is ample room to be dubious.
By the way, Jeff. Can you explain why we are only seeing immigrants being arrested, and not employers who hire them? There are thousands of undocumented immigrants in North County, working as nannies, gardeners, cooks, housekeepers in Rancho Santa Fe, alone. And yet none of those employers have been cited and charged. Why is that?
I get it. If you don’t like what you hear, just suggest it’s uncorroborated third person! Nice technique. You can go online right now and find masked and unidentified ICE tackling unarmed people who are Americans, with mistaken identity.
However, none of this matters now. In 35 days we are going to see how Americans feel about the Trump administration, ICE, the Iranian war, and all of the economic issues people are dealing with in America.
Three words: Trump derangement syndrome. Obama deported ten million illegals and not a peep out of the bleeding heart people. Now Trump deports a half a million and it's the end of the world.
TDS for sure.
If that’s true, it’s terrible. ICE should not be in local jurisdictions. Local police and sheriffs who know our towns SHOULD be executing warrants for ALL criminals - citizens and not. If the criminal aliens were deported, support for ICE would disappear overnight.
ICE using electrified gloves to subdue flailing, liberal inflamed illegals does sound like a good idea.
If they did not come illegally this would not be an issue. You get what you sow
You must either be vaccinated or a liberal. TDS, for sure.
So now you want a demonize me … telling me I have Trump arrangement syndrome and am a liberal? Good luck with that one. I’ve been republican for decades and never changed it. I’ll look for you November 4 and you can tell me how many Americans are uncomfortable with an unwinnable war created by Donald Trump, high gas prices, farmers going bankrupt, and high cost of living.
You sir, are not a republican.
I have not changed my mind on my opinion of you; you sound so angry; but I'd bet money you must love the Biden and his evil administration: illegally mandating the bioweapon clot shots for everyone BUT Congress, the Postal employees and ILLEGALS! Trump is loved the world over; best POTUS of many lifetimes, for sure. You are welcome to take as many clot shots as you wish AND hate on Trump, but as for me and my family it's God, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and POTUS Trump!
I understand you love Trump and want to demonize anyone who is uncomfortable with Trump decisions, but when you added “the rule of law” to your statement….it’s going to be interesting to see how Americans feel about Trump in 35 days and in 2027, we’ll see the upcoming subpoenas and how many in Trump’s administration have broken Constitutional laws. Tootles.
I think y'all are being a little too hard on Wickstrom. A quick glance at his Substack Subscription list proves sources for everything he's posted (with the exception of his political affiliation):
- Activist Futurism
- The Capitalist
- Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
- The Daily
- The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump
- Letters from an American
- PoliticusUSA
My understanding is the sites are all free from corporate, billionaire, and Republican bias. So, if he had an original thought, you could attack him. However, in this case, you really need to hold off.
Nice try, Jim. The ACLU at the time said Obama had one of the worst policies regarding detention of illegal immigrants. Maybe you conveniently forgot but they literally used cages to hold the children and their families.
Oh, I’m not denying that Obama had immigrant families in cages, as you say…but I don’t think Obama is president now, is he? What is true is that hundreds of immigrant children as young as four years old continue to face immigration judges, and recently some did not have legal representation. Nice planning, right?
During Donald Trump’s first administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acknowledged that it was unable to reach or account for 1,475 unaccompanied migrant children during a specific check-in period in 2018, while separate family separation policies led to over 5,000 children being separated from their parents, with hundreds remaining hard to reunite.
Again, we’ll see how Americans will judge Trump’s immigration policies in 35 days.
You were bragging how humane Obama's policies were compared to now. When i point out that is hogwash, you change the subject.
Can't do it. CA is so corrupt; some portion of the funds raised would most certainly be used to reelect democrats, and we all can see the damage their policies have done. NO ON PROP 45
Starve the GOV. It's a NO for me.