Booth helps register its 100th voter
By Brian Harmon
LW contributor
For the past month, the LW Republican Club’s booth has been distributing free, comfortable face masks every Monday courtesy of Michelle Steel, President of OC Board of Supervisors and candidate for Congress. The club reached a milestone when this year’s 100th voter was registered. The Republican Club has raised over $600 overall in the last four weeks. •••• The Republican club sent out an email to all members covering its position on a number of issues, including ballot propositions.
Historically, voters have complained about ballot propositions being confusing. An example would be when a proposition was to eliminate a program such as rent control, voting “yes” meant you don’t want rent control and voting “no” meant you do.
Another example of a confusing proposition in a California ballot was Proposition 6 in the 2018 election.
Proposition 6 would have eliminated the gas tax increase enacted by the state legislature the previous year. That increase had raised the gas tax to 95 cents a gallon.
The official ballot summary stated that the proposition “Repeals a 2017 transportation law’s tax and fee provisions that pay for repairs and improvements to local roads, state highways, and public transportation” and “Requires the Legislature to submit any measure enacting specified taxes or fees on gas or diesel fuel, or on the privilege to operate a vehicle on public highways, to the electorate for approval.”
This happened because all statewide positions are held by members of the same party, as is a wide supermajority in both houses of the legislature. When one party has complete control of a government, it makes it difficult to see issues from every angle.
