In 1996, California voters passed Prop 209 to ban racial preferences in public education and in 2020 they reaffirmed it, write Wenyuan Wu and Eli Steele in the OC Register. Through the machinations of committed ideologues in Sacramento, a new constitutional amendment, ACA 7, could dismantle this state’s hard-won civil liberties.
A constitutional amendment making its way to the CA Senate would turn back the clock, “handing out benefits based on skin color,” says California Family Council VP Greg Burt. Assemblymember Carl DeMaio called the vote “disrespectful” to Californians who have said twice before they “do not want discrimination.”
After Santa Clara County (with support from Mayor Mahan and other faux fiscal moderates like CM’s Mulcahy and Dean) muscled through Measure A last year, other counties are looking to replay SCC’s template to unnecessarily raise taxes. Jon Coupal explores in Orange County Register.
City workers are busy scrubbing Cesar Chavez' name from statues, murals, and websites. Yet amid all the verbose, narcissistic signalling from local leaders, the key question remains unaddressed: why is our government even in the business of telling us who we should (or should not) honor? Cato Institute explorers.
Opp Now contributor Cristabel Cruz says people should ignore requests to vote for the lesser of two evils, and should vote their consciences instead. What a refreshing concept. An Opp Now exclusive.
Sabine McGinley from the U.K. says electoral systems should be designed to help voters express their authentic preferences, not something they have to scheme around. From the Electoral Reform Society.
Because the issue is never the issue--the issue is the revolution. Quirky lefty academic Noam Chomsky explores why some people oppose strategic voting, but nonetheless concludes that it's worth it to make compromises to advance the cause.
Reddit thread explores how strategic voting imprisons independent voters inside a two-party system monopoly, and ends up empowering that system.
D1 supervisor candidate Rebecca Munson says Measure A won't fix gaping shortfall created by county hospitals' systemic overspending. The banking pro outlines a fiscal discipline approach to increase efficiencies and realize a saner county budget.
