The Secretary of State’s website is overloaded, this according to the LA Times, with 3.5 million votes counted statewide:
source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/election/#props
Oh, and Jerry Brown. Ah, moonbeams and business exodus, the combo that killed the golden state goose.
Strangely, the first symptom seems to be dyslexia, as this odd Google ad showed up right after I hit publish: (screencap)
Maybe by morning they’ll have that fixed….
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Mass exodus of business & citizens me thinks?
Nothing will be like before!
Ecotretas
Hard to believe that citizen’s in your state like paying 4x the national rate for electricity. I wonder what would happen if they had a vote on this:
Vote to ban male rape in prison:
No = 60%
Yes = 40%
Gov. Moonbeam, Sen. Box of Rocks, and carbon induced economic suicide, you California folks really should replace the Golden Bear on the state flag with a lemming. It’s hard to believe with that combo of results that they actually turned down legalized pot, although from the election results it doesn’t appear that many are allowing the fact that it’s still illegal have much effect on their levels of consumption.
Prop 23 or 32. What’s the difference? It’s just numbers. You know the CAGW doesn’t really care about accurate numbers. Just ballpark numbers to advance their agenda. Accuracy is not necessary.
Business exodus maybe, from the numbers though looks like the citizens want it that way. If California does go bankrupt I will be furious if the rest of us have to bail them out. I am all for States rights, they have a right to fail and I have a right to sit back and do nothing.
It seems that signing your own financial death warrant is now de rigueur on the west coast. RIP California. It was fun knowing you…
This is fantastic news … for anyone who is not living in California. First we’ll see the slow economic decline of California and an exodus of industry, then as the rest of the world watches in horror, it’ll the shut up the stupid greens who say green “economics” can be economically sustainable.
California … now economically and politically twinned with Britain?
Those strange Cafilornia critters probably suspect that economic suicide will not be painless … that is why they didn’t legalize pot … if it’s not legal, it can’t be taxed … and they’ll need to be floating as the state dies under the beatific gaze of that old, old guy they just voted in … again.
With Barbara Boxter and Harry Reid still in the seat, a Democratic Senate Majority still in tact and all Czars still in place, Proposition 23 will be seen as an encouragement to push though some kind of National Climate Legislation, even Cap & Trade during one of the infamous Lame Duck Sessions. They simply won’t give up.
The US will absorb the loss of California as a productive hub as most of the industrial activities will be taken over by other US States.
An exodus of jobs and citizens will make it doubtful if California will be able to perform the planned investments.
The introduction of National Climate policies however will be extremely harmful.
Extreme vigilance is required.
I expect an extremely bumpy ride for the upcoming two years and it will be a make or break test for the GOP and the Tea Party. They will have to ‘deliver’ from day one.
An almost impossible task within the current setting.
Prop 23
Catch 22
60-40. Wow. Now all those green jobs will start flowing into California and the world will be saved.
I just don’t understand how so many Californians can believe in the rainbows and unicorns that they have been promised.
And pot is still illegal.
You would think a lot of people would have had to have been high to vote down Prop 23. Apparently not.
But good news for the largest industry in my home province of British Columbia. Years of bud profits await us.
oakgeo says:
November 3, 2010 at 1:20 am
“I just don’t understand how so many Californians can believe in the rainbows and unicorns that they have been promised.”
Maybe too many of them on that pot?…
This is a short-term bad, but a long-term good. If Prop 23 passed, the Greens would have had a propaganda field-day about how terrible things were becoming with the environment. Now they get to prove to themselves and the world just how bad their plans really are. Unfortunately, California’s economy is a sizable fraction of North America’s, but at least some of the lost productivity will shift to other states. Then, after everything in California crashes and burns under the regulatory weight, the Greens will have been discredited and the western world will be able to get back to being productive again.
I’m such an idealist.
I’m afraid the bell tolls for The Golden State. Depart all ye who seek hope.
Keep in mind that statistically speaking, 50% of the people are below average. How many folks truly knew what they were voting for?
California’s deficit is, approx, 1% of State GDP. And, they probably send that much money to Super-Duper “Low-Tax” States like my own. I think California will probably be just fine.
RE: Prop. 32
What does “former Speaker Nunez” have against veterans? 🙂
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_32_%282000%29
BTW, the CA Secretary of State’s website came back at 1 AM local time. As of 1:36 AM:
Prop 23 Suspend Air Pollution Control Law (AB 32) Yes: 2,381,551 (39.5%) No: 3,640,708 (60.5%)
On a lighter note, there is this California congressman, Darrell Issa:
There is hope in California; even if there is no hope for California.
“House Oversight Committee chairman-elect Rep. Darrell Issa downplayed the vast new power of subpoena he will be assuming come January.”
“Issa made a point of noting that other committees would be in the investigation business, too. For instance, he said the House Science Committee will have primary jurisdiction on the so-called “Climategate” scandal where top global warming scientists are accused, based on a document dump of their e-mails, of tilting the scales in their scientific investigations.”
http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/03/issa-my-job-is-to-make-the-president-a-success/
Published: 1:58 AM 11/03/2010 | Updated: 2:41 AM 11/03/2010
Years ago one of my friends in NZ, a lecturer (‘Professor’ in the USA) at our local Teachers Training College, enjoyed a sabbatical in the USA, mostly spent in California. When he returned to work, he frequently remarked that, ‘in California, all phantasies were available 24/7.’ I now know what he meant.
Jim Cameron wins! California loses. Well done Jim : (
We have a UK Cameron , who frankly is no better. The UK loses. Well done David : (
The race was lost the moment opposing ads with asthmatic children appeared…
The fact that C02 could never harm a child with asthma is irrelevant – the good sheeple here will believe it – after all, the bill has the word “pollution” in it and everybody knows what pollution is… And what is “pollution”? Why, whatever the guvmint SAYS it is, that’s what… Isn’t life simple?
The same sort of mentality seems to rule in Massachusetts. It astounds me, however I suppose some can’t face reality until it clonks them over the head.
Some can’t face reality even after they are clonked. (Some in England were insisting Hitler could be reasoned with, even as Hitler marched into Poland in 1939.) In my opinion they are the true “clingers.” In the case of California, I suppose you could call them “glitter clingers.”
Just about the only good I can see coming out of this is that, when a sticky, smelly, brown substance hits the fan, you want the people who threw the sticky, smelly, brown substance to be standing right by the fan.