Democrats know what they believe. They just can't be honest about it.
,They believe in perpetually having their hands in all our back pockets. Then growing government dependency, until it reaches a self-perpetuating, critical mass that ensures total power forever.
Try putting that on a ballot. Though NYC mayor's race is as close as this comes to Democrats being honest about their real agenda.
It is our job now, to put their real agenda out there - with names, dates and facts. Debunk their smoke-screens, then nail the facts down.
We are starting this process right here and right now, as readership of the SB Current site grows. And people don't feel they are so alone in this town, that actually did vote over 30% for Trump, rejection of the Democrat agenda, and for exactly the change we are now seeing.
It already begins: Rep Kevin Kiley (R) points out the tricks already getting played. He is a primary target of Newsom's re-districting scam which eliminates his district and puts him in a Democrat majority district :
"Newsom has set a "Special Election" for his Redistricting Sham: November 4. He also just released a poll suggesting 57% of voters are for it. But a Politico poll shows 64% against it. The difference is fraud.
****Newsom has twisted the ballot language to make “Yes” look like “No.”****"
Democrat voters will vote for ANY person, the more brain dead and corrupt the better, and they all vote in a block. That is the danger. Republicans vote for character and accomplishments and thus often are split on who to support. Democrats do not care about character or accomplishment's, only that they win, and they will vote as a block even while holding their nose over their own candidate. Republicans will lose unless we do two things. 1) Eliminate RINO's from our ranks who make it appear that we won an election only to find RINO's are stopping us more than Democrats, and 2) Learn to stick together and vote as a block like Democrats. Otherwise in 3 years we will be right back where we started, or worse.
Well, Henry, I have a few words to say on your article. I see you’re happy that DEI has vanished. It seems you’re against the disabled and minorities, which includes women having equal opportunities. You’re happy that global warming has been put on the back burner. As for children being mutilated, that was a QAnon maga fallacy. You also mention men pretending to be women has lost its luster, you must be speaking of Drag Queens. Let me tell you the Drag Queens have not lost their luster, it’s just that the red hat maga campaign brigade speeches are no longer needed to rile up tacos supporters.
You write about cursing and no point being made, that is so true. I hear taco using four letter words in his tirades during his interviews, and he rambles on and on, and never comes to the point. You might not realize it, but Newsom is not trying to be like taco, he is actually mocking him and his bluster. As for the voters being suckered in, we actually saw that November 5th of 2024, taco suckered them in, hook, line and sinker., and yes, we as a country are all suffering now.
Ineptness is all over DC now. Leaders are not made, they just are. Wish we had one. I miss living under “ole Joe”, a real president. Diminished capacity or not. The taco administration is completely incompetent starting with taco all the way down to his flunkies.
I hope the Right have an epiphany and sees the truth where we’re headed. Seems like we’re halfway there, living under a dictator and Marshal law. taco said, “I am not a dictator”, do you remember someone saying “I am not a crook”?
At least taco is giving the people what they need and want and tending to his presidential duties. Here’s a few examples. The people got unnecessary flagpoles on both sides of the White House, when there’s one sitting right on top of it already, cementing over the Rose garden because women’s heels sink in the grass, well don’t have events when it’s wet and muddy, taking over the Kennedy Center planning to name it after himself or the Mrs. or both, and making himself chairman of the board, giving pardons to celebrities and criminal insurrectionists, building a ballroom, he’s become a decorator in chief of trashy, tacky junk, and creating a gallery of homages to himself in the WH, using the DOJ for personal vendettas against anyone who investigated any of his crimes, and building his personal wealth. Just a few of his many accomplishments, I’m sure the people are grateful.
So taco is trying to bully his way to a Nobel peace prize? He has not ended any wars, he has not stopped any wars. What he does is do a quid pro quo with the countries . He promises them favors in return for a nomination for a peace prize. In fact, a lot of these countries have been in ongoing peace talks and treaties from the previous administrations. Do you think Netanyahu would’ve nominated him if he hadn’t bombed Iran for him? .
You say taco is returning killers to their home countries? I don’t think Kilmer Abrego Garcia was born in Uganda or a killer, also it sounds like you’re labeling all deportees as killers. Protecting children? From what? Do you mean, like the shooting that took place today in Minneapolis killing two and injuring 17 others?
I just hope his tariffs cover all his frivolous expenditures because I’m sure he’s already raised the national debt by billions. Which, of course falls back on the taxpayers.
I would like you to list what Trump has done wrong. Not silly things like flag poles. We know liberals don't care much for the American flag. The things you are picking is out of desperation trying to find something, anything, other than the border is closed, billions are rolling in from tariffs. Murders and rapists, drug dealer and child traffickers are being rounded up and sent home. Stock market through the roof. Gas prices the lowest since Trump left office the last time. You parrot all the same things the media uses. To desperately nit pick at nonsense. It doesn't matter what Trump does. His list of wins for America has grown so long. It's like that old comment a few years ago. News Headline: Trump walks on water. Proves he can't swim. Somehow the hatred for this one man has to stop. He's not running again. Everything he's doing is for you and the country. He doesn't care who hates him. Our nations capital hasn't had a murder in weeks. Does that mean going in cleaning up the city was horrible? Or does having a half dozen murders last week in Chicago acceptable? I don't understand this bizarre thinking. Hatred clouds all common sense.
There are 10,367,321 registered voters in California. The Democratic Party has 45.27% of them tied up. There are 2,381,000 union members in California. The Democratic Part has 59% of them according to Pew Research. The registered Democrats are fiercely loyal and do not regard the Republicans have anything to offer them. The Democratic Party Politicians and the Unions are hand-in-glove with mutual contributions. The Republican Party is not a serious competitor with only 24.5% of registered voters. These numbers won't change much, until the Republican Party gets new leadership and recruits new members.
Missing are the Independents who now, plus GOP numbers, have reached parity with Democrat registrations. What bridges can be built between GOP and the Independents?
Independents made their first moves away from the current very weak Democrat majority - Independents refused to register as Democrats . We need to learn why.
I’ll tell ya what to take away from all this Henry - how crafty _and successful_ the Democrats really are! We float along on a high cloud while they lie, cheat, steal, and . . . get all the marbles! They realize the average chump on the street doesn’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain, let alone ponder what’s fair and right, so while we’re acting like boy scouts at a knife fight, they play dirty and walk off with the trophy.
Screw that - we Republicans need to get mean. We need to get loud. We need to throw elbows, and shove our way back to the front. CA politics isn’t a Sunday picnic — it’s a back-alley brawl, and the meanest fighters walk away with the purse.
We’ve got two choices: keep drifting along in la-la land and watch them strip us blind, or grit our teeth, and fight like Democrats!
Never underestimate the power Democrats in this state have over astro-turfing all their government employees to show up, and cheer every move that keeps Democrats in full control.
These are not real rank and file state residents, they are not real independent voters, they are not even "working families". They are taxpayer funded two-fers. The majority will be Democrats, mostly self-interested government employees, and more likely than not government employee union members.
Starting about 20 years ago, Democrats crammed down "election reform". Only in retrospect, did every element of that "election reform" work only in their own favor. They had a head start. They knew what they were doing. Many of us at the time, did not.
How many of these election reform measures sounded like good idea at the time? Term limits; jungle primaries; same day registration; automatic DMV voter registration; cross-over primary voting; universal mail in balloting; ballot harvesting; long delayed counting grace period for mail in ballots.........
Once they got their "election reform" package passed, they immediately dug in, changed the rules and we ended up in this current Democrat supermajority state, even worse than when Willie Brown was running the show. That is how it happened.
That is your starting date--Nov 2005 - track all the "election reform" measures Democrats were able to pass that have now permanently skewed all future elections in this state in their favor.
We got caught flat-footed. Without breaking up the current Democrat super-majority that almost instantly evolved from "election reform" in Sacramento, there is no hope. Yet we continue to send our own mini-Democrat super majority (Monique Limon and Gregg Hart) to ensure Democrats state wide to keep doing this to us.
What is now becoming clear is unless the bigoted Dem's are willing to have open and free elections, with a complete cleansing of voter rolls there will be a 2 State Option.
The once great State of Calif. will become a footnote in failed political history.
Much of the Democrat overkill reaction and need to have their current iron grip on state politics, did come after fiscally-minded GOP (who were still a legitimate force back in those days) withheld approving the state budget for over three months because it was fiscally unsound. Without an approved budget the state was unable to fund its vast network of operations - this truly was a "crisis" due to the GOP power play to get the state to recognize its need for more prudent budgeting. Finally a sole GOP (Abel Maldanado) broke the long jam and got the ruinous Democrat budget approved (Around 2009/10?). (For which Maldonado was soundly punished by his GOP colleagues.) I suspect Democrats, because so many of them depend on state taxpayer fundings, vowed to never let GOP get that much power over their paychecks, perks and pensions ever again. Thus their rush for "election reform" and the current Democrat stranglehold of the entire state by Democrat voting SEIU and the teachers union members. This is all fairly recent history, considering not that long ago we were a functioning two-party state. And conservative forces even recalled a Democrat governor - in 2004. From this point onwards however, Democrats went into a full court press, gamed the system, grew the government, opened the borders, and took over the entire state to the point many forget it did function in a bi-partisan manner at one time. We definitely need a shot of Make California Great Again and bring back healthy and functional political debate, now lost entirely in this state. It is also now on our shoulders to revive it.
Soldiers have a DUTY to refuse to obey unlawful orders. "Just following orders" is not a defense (Nuremberg Trials). "All I did was shove them into a conveyance." "All I did was put a 10-year-old terrorist alien into a cage." "All I did was turn on a gas valve." If your moral compass is telling you that Trump's order is illegal, see UCMJ Article 90 and CALL the G.I. Rights Hotline (877) 497-4487. You are NOT alone!
It is a sad state of affairs for the Democrat party that their best horse in the stable is someone as deranged and seemingly slick as Gavin Newsom. Let’s pray that the same American voters who put Trump back in for a second term will see the folly of giving the Democrats any more seats in the House or Senate in the coming election, and God forbid elect somebody as awful as Newsom in 2028.
In response to my comment on this article the question of Independent voters was raised.
According to ChatGBT , 23.3% of California registered voters are designated as Independent.
Among all Independent voters, 39% normally vote for Democrats, 26% for Republicans and 34% are swing voters.
There are, I think, a number of reasons voters identify as Independents when registering as a voter. One is that they think it is nobody else's business to know which party they favor. Another is that they are tired of getting bombarded with funding requests if they advertise their party preference. There are probably other reasons as well. The percentages above show that there is some likelihood of Independents, overall, favoring the Democratic party, if we split the swing voters equally between the two parties, and include the fact that the Democratic party has super-majorities in both houses of state governance.
When did the California Democrat party first go to the mattresses and use every tool at their disposal to never be threatened ever again? November 2005
Democrat's existential frog brain was threatened after the Gov Gray Davis recall. The teachers unions in particular mounted a massive PR offensive, that even got the reform-minded governor eventually to come over to their side. California has never been the same since.
"...ABSTRACT: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election in November 2005. There were eight citizen initiatives on the ballot, including four reform measures endorsed by the governor, and all eight measures were defeated. ......
NB: What were those four ballot reform measures and what shape would the state be in today, if they had passed? Teacher tenure was one of them as Californians saw their once exceptional public education system falter and fail every year.
Gov Schwarzenegger's four ballot reform measures out of eight other measures on the same ballot "Voters" rejected in 2005 - which party and their members had the most at stake defeating them?
2005 election reform measures - all defeated by "voters". The sleeping giant, the government employee unions, had been awakened
---1. Proposition 74 EDUCATION Extends the probationary period for newly hired teachers from two consecutive school years to five and changes the process for dismissing permanent teachers who had received two unsatisfactory performance evaluations
Defeated
(**Teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---2. Proposition 75 PAYCHECK PROTECTION Requires obtaining written consent from employees before using union dues for political contributions
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefits by defeat)
---3. Proposition 76 SPENDING CAPS Limits state spending to the prior year's level plus three previous years’ average revenue growth; changes state minimum funding for schools; enacts other budgetary changes
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---4. Proposition 77 REDISTRICTING Changes the redistricting process for legislative and congressional districts from the state legislature to a panel of three retired justices
HOPEFULLY, the lawsuit filed will SMACK down this "proposed election". I won't hold my breath but I'm glad some are fighting back!
The problem that the Democrat Party has is that it does not know what it believes.
Berney
Democrats know what they believe. They just can't be honest about it.
,They believe in perpetually having their hands in all our back pockets. Then growing government dependency, until it reaches a self-perpetuating, critical mass that ensures total power forever.
Try putting that on a ballot. Though NYC mayor's race is as close as this comes to Democrats being honest about their real agenda.
You are likely correct, but they will never say what they believe or put it in print.
It is our job now, to put their real agenda out there - with names, dates and facts. Debunk their smoke-screens, then nail the facts down.
We are starting this process right here and right now, as readership of the SB Current site grows. And people don't feel they are so alone in this town, that actually did vote over 30% for Trump, rejection of the Democrat agenda, and for exactly the change we are now seeing.
It already begins: Rep Kevin Kiley (R) points out the tricks already getting played. He is a primary target of Newsom's re-districting scam which eliminates his district and puts him in a Democrat majority district :
"Newsom has set a "Special Election" for his Redistricting Sham: November 4. He also just released a poll suggesting 57% of voters are for it. But a Politico poll shows 64% against it. The difference is fraud.
****Newsom has twisted the ballot language to make “Yes” look like “No.”****"
Democrat voters will vote for ANY person, the more brain dead and corrupt the better, and they all vote in a block. That is the danger. Republicans vote for character and accomplishments and thus often are split on who to support. Democrats do not care about character or accomplishment's, only that they win, and they will vote as a block even while holding their nose over their own candidate. Republicans will lose unless we do two things. 1) Eliminate RINO's from our ranks who make it appear that we won an election only to find RINO's are stopping us more than Democrats, and 2) Learn to stick together and vote as a block like Democrats. Otherwise in 3 years we will be right back where we started, or worse.
Truer words were never written.
Democrats even dress alike - many of them sport purple and yellow T-shirts.
Well, Henry, I have a few words to say on your article. I see you’re happy that DEI has vanished. It seems you’re against the disabled and minorities, which includes women having equal opportunities. You’re happy that global warming has been put on the back burner. As for children being mutilated, that was a QAnon maga fallacy. You also mention men pretending to be women has lost its luster, you must be speaking of Drag Queens. Let me tell you the Drag Queens have not lost their luster, it’s just that the red hat maga campaign brigade speeches are no longer needed to rile up tacos supporters.
You write about cursing and no point being made, that is so true. I hear taco using four letter words in his tirades during his interviews, and he rambles on and on, and never comes to the point. You might not realize it, but Newsom is not trying to be like taco, he is actually mocking him and his bluster. As for the voters being suckered in, we actually saw that November 5th of 2024, taco suckered them in, hook, line and sinker., and yes, we as a country are all suffering now.
Ineptness is all over DC now. Leaders are not made, they just are. Wish we had one. I miss living under “ole Joe”, a real president. Diminished capacity or not. The taco administration is completely incompetent starting with taco all the way down to his flunkies.
I hope the Right have an epiphany and sees the truth where we’re headed. Seems like we’re halfway there, living under a dictator and Marshal law. taco said, “I am not a dictator”, do you remember someone saying “I am not a crook”?
At least taco is giving the people what they need and want and tending to his presidential duties. Here’s a few examples. The people got unnecessary flagpoles on both sides of the White House, when there’s one sitting right on top of it already, cementing over the Rose garden because women’s heels sink in the grass, well don’t have events when it’s wet and muddy, taking over the Kennedy Center planning to name it after himself or the Mrs. or both, and making himself chairman of the board, giving pardons to celebrities and criminal insurrectionists, building a ballroom, he’s become a decorator in chief of trashy, tacky junk, and creating a gallery of homages to himself in the WH, using the DOJ for personal vendettas against anyone who investigated any of his crimes, and building his personal wealth. Just a few of his many accomplishments, I’m sure the people are grateful.
So taco is trying to bully his way to a Nobel peace prize? He has not ended any wars, he has not stopped any wars. What he does is do a quid pro quo with the countries . He promises them favors in return for a nomination for a peace prize. In fact, a lot of these countries have been in ongoing peace talks and treaties from the previous administrations. Do you think Netanyahu would’ve nominated him if he hadn’t bombed Iran for him? .
You say taco is returning killers to their home countries? I don’t think Kilmer Abrego Garcia was born in Uganda or a killer, also it sounds like you’re labeling all deportees as killers. Protecting children? From what? Do you mean, like the shooting that took place today in Minneapolis killing two and injuring 17 others?
I just hope his tariffs cover all his frivolous expenditures because I’m sure he’s already raised the national debt by billions. Which, of course falls back on the taxpayers.
I would like you to list what Trump has done wrong. Not silly things like flag poles. We know liberals don't care much for the American flag. The things you are picking is out of desperation trying to find something, anything, other than the border is closed, billions are rolling in from tariffs. Murders and rapists, drug dealer and child traffickers are being rounded up and sent home. Stock market through the roof. Gas prices the lowest since Trump left office the last time. You parrot all the same things the media uses. To desperately nit pick at nonsense. It doesn't matter what Trump does. His list of wins for America has grown so long. It's like that old comment a few years ago. News Headline: Trump walks on water. Proves he can't swim. Somehow the hatred for this one man has to stop. He's not running again. Everything he's doing is for you and the country. He doesn't care who hates him. Our nations capital hasn't had a murder in weeks. Does that mean going in cleaning up the city was horrible? Or does having a half dozen murders last week in Chicago acceptable? I don't understand this bizarre thinking. Hatred clouds all common sense.
There are 10,367,321 registered voters in California. The Democratic Party has 45.27% of them tied up. There are 2,381,000 union members in California. The Democratic Part has 59% of them according to Pew Research. The registered Democrats are fiercely loyal and do not regard the Republicans have anything to offer them. The Democratic Party Politicians and the Unions are hand-in-glove with mutual contributions. The Republican Party is not a serious competitor with only 24.5% of registered voters. These numbers won't change much, until the Republican Party gets new leadership and recruits new members.
Missing are the Independents who now, plus GOP numbers, have reached parity with Democrat registrations. What bridges can be built between GOP and the Independents?
Independents made their first moves away from the current very weak Democrat majority - Independents refused to register as Democrats . We need to learn why.
..........The whole “We hate Trump” diatribe has become white noise billowing in cyber space....
That one line took my breath away. A polished gem of commentary. Thank you.
A+ for content. A+ for style.
I’ll tell ya what to take away from all this Henry - how crafty _and successful_ the Democrats really are! We float along on a high cloud while they lie, cheat, steal, and . . . get all the marbles! They realize the average chump on the street doesn’t have sense enough to come in out of the rain, let alone ponder what’s fair and right, so while we’re acting like boy scouts at a knife fight, they play dirty and walk off with the trophy.
Screw that - we Republicans need to get mean. We need to get loud. We need to throw elbows, and shove our way back to the front. CA politics isn’t a Sunday picnic — it’s a back-alley brawl, and the meanest fighters walk away with the purse.
We’ve got two choices: keep drifting along in la-la land and watch them strip us blind, or grit our teeth, and fight like Democrats!
Never underestimate the power Democrats in this state have over astro-turfing all their government employees to show up, and cheer every move that keeps Democrats in full control.
These are not real rank and file state residents, they are not real independent voters, they are not even "working families". They are taxpayer funded two-fers. The majority will be Democrats, mostly self-interested government employees, and more likely than not government employee union members.
The one party state. How did this happen?
The top 2 is part of it. They vanquished their own opposition on the Left.
May the Force be with you, and white sabers win.
Good comment
Starting about 20 years ago, Democrats crammed down "election reform". Only in retrospect, did every element of that "election reform" work only in their own favor. They had a head start. They knew what they were doing. Many of us at the time, did not.
How many of these election reform measures sounded like good idea at the time? Term limits; jungle primaries; same day registration; automatic DMV voter registration; cross-over primary voting; universal mail in balloting; ballot harvesting; long delayed counting grace period for mail in ballots.........
Once they got their "election reform" package passed, they immediately dug in, changed the rules and we ended up in this current Democrat supermajority state, even worse than when Willie Brown was running the show. That is how it happened.
That is your starting date--Nov 2005 - track all the "election reform" measures Democrats were able to pass that have now permanently skewed all future elections in this state in their favor.
We got caught flat-footed. Without breaking up the current Democrat super-majority that almost instantly evolved from "election reform" in Sacramento, there is no hope. Yet we continue to send our own mini-Democrat super majority (Monique Limon and Gregg Hart) to ensure Democrats state wide to keep doing this to us.
Fully agree with you.
What is now becoming clear is unless the bigoted Dem's are willing to have open and free elections, with a complete cleansing of voter rolls there will be a 2 State Option.
The once great State of Calif. will become a footnote in failed political history.
Much of the Democrat overkill reaction and need to have their current iron grip on state politics, did come after fiscally-minded GOP (who were still a legitimate force back in those days) withheld approving the state budget for over three months because it was fiscally unsound. Without an approved budget the state was unable to fund its vast network of operations - this truly was a "crisis" due to the GOP power play to get the state to recognize its need for more prudent budgeting. Finally a sole GOP (Abel Maldanado) broke the long jam and got the ruinous Democrat budget approved (Around 2009/10?). (For which Maldonado was soundly punished by his GOP colleagues.) I suspect Democrats, because so many of them depend on state taxpayer fundings, vowed to never let GOP get that much power over their paychecks, perks and pensions ever again. Thus their rush for "election reform" and the current Democrat stranglehold of the entire state by Democrat voting SEIU and the teachers union members. This is all fairly recent history, considering not that long ago we were a functioning two-party state. And conservative forces even recalled a Democrat governor - in 2004. From this point onwards however, Democrats went into a full court press, gamed the system, grew the government, opened the borders, and took over the entire state to the point many forget it did function in a bi-partisan manner at one time. We definitely need a shot of Make California Great Again and bring back healthy and functional political debate, now lost entirely in this state. It is also now on our shoulders to revive it.
Soldiers have a DUTY to refuse to obey unlawful orders. "Just following orders" is not a defense (Nuremberg Trials). "All I did was shove them into a conveyance." "All I did was put a 10-year-old terrorist alien into a cage." "All I did was turn on a gas valve." If your moral compass is telling you that Trump's order is illegal, see UCMJ Article 90 and CALL the G.I. Rights Hotline (877) 497-4487. You are NOT alone!
It is a sad state of affairs for the Democrat party that their best horse in the stable is someone as deranged and seemingly slick as Gavin Newsom. Let’s pray that the same American voters who put Trump back in for a second term will see the folly of giving the Democrats any more seats in the House or Senate in the coming election, and God forbid elect somebody as awful as Newsom in 2028.
In response to my comment on this article the question of Independent voters was raised.
According to ChatGBT , 23.3% of California registered voters are designated as Independent.
Among all Independent voters, 39% normally vote for Democrats, 26% for Republicans and 34% are swing voters.
There are, I think, a number of reasons voters identify as Independents when registering as a voter. One is that they think it is nobody else's business to know which party they favor. Another is that they are tired of getting bombarded with funding requests if they advertise their party preference. There are probably other reasons as well. The percentages above show that there is some likelihood of Independents, overall, favoring the Democratic party, if we split the swing voters equally between the two parties, and include the fact that the Democratic party has super-majorities in both houses of state governance.
When did the California Democrat party first go to the mattresses and use every tool at their disposal to never be threatened ever again? November 2005
Democrat's existential frog brain was threatened after the Gov Gray Davis recall. The teachers unions in particular mounted a massive PR offensive, that even got the reform-minded governor eventually to come over to their side. California has never been the same since.
"...ABSTRACT: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special election in November 2005. There were eight citizen initiatives on the ballot, including four reform measures endorsed by the governor, and all eight measures were defeated. ......
NB: What were those four ballot reform measures and what shape would the state be in today, if they had passed? Teacher tenure was one of them as Californians saw their once exceptional public education system falter and fail every year.
Gov Schwarzenegger's four ballot reform measures out of eight other measures on the same ballot "Voters" rejected in 2005 - which party and their members had the most at stake defeating them?
https://ballotpedia.org/California_2005_ballot_propositions
2005 election reform measures - all defeated by "voters". The sleeping giant, the government employee unions, had been awakened
---1. Proposition 74 EDUCATION Extends the probationary period for newly hired teachers from two consecutive school years to five and changes the process for dismissing permanent teachers who had received two unsatisfactory performance evaluations
Defeated
(**Teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---2. Proposition 75 PAYCHECK PROTECTION Requires obtaining written consent from employees before using union dues for political contributions
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefits by defeat)
---3. Proposition 76 SPENDING CAPS Limits state spending to the prior year's level plus three previous years’ average revenue growth; changes state minimum funding for schools; enacts other budgetary changes
Defeated
(**SEIU and the teachers unions benefited by defeat)
---4. Proposition 77 REDISTRICTING Changes the redistricting process for legislative and congressional districts from the state legislature to a panel of three retired justices
(**Democrats benefit by defeat)