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Proposition 82, the mandatory preschool/tax increase/help Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Denver initiative, fell to defeat yesterday. With almost every precinct reporting, 39.1% favored the proposition, but 60.9% opposed it. Californians even defeated a library bond initiative, 53.1% to 46.9%. That’s … Continue reading →

Proposition 82, the pre-school for all, tax the wealthy, help Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Denver initiative, now trails, according to a Field Poll just released. For those, like me, who are against the initiative, vigilance is still required. Democrats are … Continue reading →

Proposition 82, the free preschool, tax increase, Help Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Denver Initiative, may now be trailing in polls. While no new polls have been released publicly, Bill Bradley of LA Weekly notes in a recent column that support … Continue reading →

Proposition 82, the Mandatory Preschool/Tax Increase/Help Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Denver Initiative, still leads in the polls. However, the last statewide poll was released over a month ago. Unfortunately for all Californians, the primary election on June 6th is dominated … Continue reading →

Rob Reiner resigned as head of the First-5 Commission on Wednesday, as more pressure mounts to do a thorough investigation. Indeed, as the Chronicle story notes, both Democrats and Republicans believe something’s fishy with how the Commission spent money raised … Continue reading →

Proposition 82, the pre-school/tax increase/help Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver Initiative, continues to have support at the polls here in the Golden State. Rob Reiner, who wrote the initiative, continues to find himself in a hole. Yesterday Reiner held a … Continue reading →

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, State Senator Don Perata (D-Oakland) has dropped his support of Rob Reiner’s Proposition 82, the mandatory preschool/increase income tax/Help Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado Initiative, because it was too expensive. Perata noted that the estimated … Continue reading →

Proposition 82 on the June 6th California Primary Election Ballot is titled, “Preschool Education. Tax On Incomes Over $400,000 for Individuals; $800,000 for Couples….” A better name for this misguided statute is the “Preschool Education Bureaucracy. Driving Jobs from California … Continue reading →