Hi All! The state voters handbook was mailed out about a week or so. Please take a look at Props 41 and 42. This is my write-up and take on them. Please review and advise if my recommendations for our web page for this election are OK. Please respond by the week-end to allow enough time for us to post them on our website for voters looking for guidance. Early voting starts next Monday.
Prop 41-Veterans Housing & Homeless Prevention Bond Act
of 2014. What if you created a
government program that hardly anyone used? What would you do? That is the
problem posed by this ballot measure. Few veterans have been taking advantage of the Veterans’ Home Loan
Program, which has been a self-supporting program because the veterans must pay
the money back as they become property owners. So the politicians want to divert $600 million from the self-supporting
program to create another government giveaway program paid for by the taxpayers. This measure will be great for the “nonprofit”
developers that will obtain low-interest loans at taxpayer expense to build government
rental housing that makes the veterans more dependent on government. We prefer the current program that at least encourages
veterans to elevate their standard of living via home ownership and expects
them to repay their debt over this proposed program that will lead to more
dependency on government and will be a boom for crony capitalist
developers. Therefore we recommend a NO
vote.
Prop 42-Public Records. This measure will not increase or decrease the scope of government in
our lives. It merely moves the cost of
compliance with sunshine laws from the state government to local
governments. In keeping with the idea
that more local control is better than control from Sacramento, it makes sense
for local government agencies to pay their own costs of transparency so they
can better manage them. Therefore we
recommend a YES vote.
Thanks!
Aubrey