We've got a good crop of propositions this time, eleven state-wide and some interesting local ones.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 6th. You can also vote before then at Early Voting locations. Check your sample ballot, or ask your county's Registrar of Voters to find out where. For instance, in Alameda County you can vote at the Registrar's office in downtown Oakland, among other places.
State-wide: | [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [10] [11] [12] |
Regional: | [FF] [AD15] |
San Francisco: | [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] |
Berkeley: | [O] [P] [Q] [R] |
AD15 covers the East Bay shoreline cities, from Oakland north. In the June primary I recommended Buffy Wicks, in no small part because of her position on Costa-Hawkins. While every other candidate said they wanted to repeal it, Wicks said she would rather modify it with a rolling cut-off date. I found this to be a more realistic position.
Since then, to everyone's surprise, an initiative for full repeal of Costa-Hawkins qualified for the ballot as Proposition 10. I asked Wicks if she had a position on Prop. 10. After initially ducking the question, Wicks eventually came out opposing Prop. 10, sticking with her reform position from the primary.
I think this is a mistake. It's bad tactics. If you want to reform Costa-Hawkins, you have to jump on a chance to repeal it. If full repeal succeeds, individual cities can still decide to do their own reformed mini-Costa-Hawkins laws, as Berkeley is trying to do with Measure Q. And if repeal fails you can still try to reform it state-wide later.
The East Bay Express actually rescinded their endorsement of Wicks over this. While I still recommend Wicks for AD15, my support is less than full-throated.
Secretary of State's voter information page.
Alameda County's voter information page.
San Francisco's voter information page.
SPUR Voter Guide.
The League of Pissed Off Voters.
Pete Rates the Propositions.
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