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….
Kalifornia must be banking on getting bailed out by the Feds again.
When all the producers have left and only the rent-seekers are left in the State, nett income will plummet.
Don’t cry for California, America.
She will be back, someday.
But cry for the people whose dreams will be crushed by leftist nightmares and whose lives will be hurt or worse by leftist reality.
In Britain, the ‘elite’ of all political parties are in favour of ‘green solutions’, sometimes these are sensible policies, mostly they are not. As always, the people have to pay for the politicians’ stupidity and guile.
As many of the comments here point out, this vote in California will drive both wealth and real jobs out of the state. Unfortunately, we need something as large as California to demonstrate to the world, beyond any possible doubt, just how stupid and economically debilitating it is to set arbitrary carbon targets, which can only be met by inducing economic depression.
Southern California has perfect weather. It is a shame it also home to far too many idealists who don’t live in the real world. I would love to live in a California without the current state government.
Here is what may happen, emphasis on may. The California economy stays bad while the rest of the US slowly improves. Companies begin to leave because companies must make a profit. Because of all that, people that pay taxes who are not idealists and are not a drain on the system leave because they need a job. Since California has many sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, slowly Spanish will become the first language of most Californians. This will accelerate the exodus out of California. And then one day, Spanish will be the primary language of both California and Puerto Rico (if HR 2499 clears the Senate, which pretty much guarantees that Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state).
But I’m not fortuneteller. I could be totally wrong. All I know is the California is going to continue to give money to people who don’t deserve while taking money away from people who earned it.
Its hard to know from the UK whether to be pleased or dissapointed in the failure of prop 23. On the one hand, it would have been good to see the populace trash enviro nonsense, but on the other hand, there’s nothing like watching someone drown to prevent people jumping in the same lake.
Can’t wait to see the new congress in action though, bring on the enquiries.
I only feel sorry for those nearly 2 million people that wanted change and a chance to bring jobs back to California. The others can live in their own utopia island with their green police.
Prop 38 – Rename California to “De Estatdo Soviet Californistan”.
What a bunch of morons, they deserve what the get. Of course a couple million of those votes were likely illegal. Ditto with Nevada where casinos were bussing “employees” to the polls all day in support of Scary Reid.
Well California should easily meet their green quota since just about every industry is now packing up shop to bolt outta town ASAP.
Of course Harry Reid is even worse since that means six more years our nuclear energy program is stalled by the efforts of one d-bag.
Anthony,
My simpathy for you and your State.
Maryland is a nice place to live.
Come on over…………….
VY 73
Obama is doing just fine getting himself into a war with Pakistan, he doesn’t need any help doing it with Iran I’m sure. No one is in favor of going to war with Iran except delusional marxist who like nothing more than to feel off their paranoia.
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well – would not worry, I am sure obama will be pushed into a war with iran soon by the hawks.
Bad news for Canada too. A bunch of our libtard provincial governments are planning to join forces with other libtard states to push the carbon trade fraud at the provincial/state level. Was hoping Prop 23 would stop this nonsense dead in its tracks but it was not to be! Hopefully Congress can initiate some criminal investigations into the climate science fraud and really help turn public opinion!
The Liberals will all sit together, hold hands and stop breathing out.
My own Brother used to be a centre/right wing intelligent person. Since he has been living in California for the last decade, he has indulged in lots of narcotics and become impaired with an inability to rationalise and reason. He has become a democrat too. I am not sure if the two are related.
All I do know is, that those lefty’s will steal every dollar they can from hard working families and businesses, waste it all and then cry that it is all the right wing’s fault and demand even more taxes to put it right,
California is going to be a ghost state at this rate.
Still, when all this madness has past by, I could buy up some real cheap property out there when the investors eventually return in 10 or 20 years time.
Californians have always been unusually gullable to large scale scientific fraud – they were committed Eugenicists in their time. Love to hear from any Californian why this might be the case.
http://www.csus.edu/cshpe/eugenics/
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/
Michael Crichton’s famous essay on the subject mentions California:
http://www.crichton-official.com/essay-stateoffear-whypoliticizedscienceisdangerous.html
I have long held the view that this ‘fight climate change and green jobs and prosperity will be yours’ nonsense would never, ever go away until the enviro’s get their way and the people are shaken out of their stupor. It will take, unfortunately, the utter destruction of California to drive the stake through the heart of this movement.
So, in a way, Californian’s are sacrificing themselves to teach the rest of the world a lesson.
Most states have restrictions in their constitutions that prohibit running budget deficits, since they can’t print money. Doesn’t California?
Once someone defined Prop. 23 as “Suspend Pollution Laws,” the game was over. Who’s going to vote for “pollution”?
But if you think California is nutty, try Taxachusetts, which just re-elected a tax-and-spend liberal governor, refused to cut the recently raised sales tax with a ballot question, and will now go full speed ahead with ‘Cape Wind’ (better, ‘Break Wind’), the off-shore subsidized wind farm in Nantucket Sound that will raise electricity rates something like 40%.
This state handily re-elected the vile Barney Frank, and ‘my’ congressman, Ed Malarkey of Crap and Tax fame. The only consolation is that neither will have committee chairmanships any more.
Time to move—Texas looks good. Warmer, too.
/Mr Lynn
The iconic ‘hockey stick’ rules supreme! There is no doubt in my mind that M Manns temperature reconstruction needs a house committee investigation, including climategate e-mails.
Only when the full story is out on how a small group of scientists decided to fool the public can anyone expect that the ‘believing’ 50% of the population can change their minds. After all, they are not scientists.
Not their fault, as they have been hoodwinked.
This shows what kind of sheep people are. It looked like this would be voted for, but of course the sheep turn around completely after a few brainwashing ad campaigns.
Oh well… I will watch their sucicide from the sidelines and hope the rest of the sheep wakes up when they see the results.
Wonder if California buy their feel-good carbon credits with their state issued IOU’s ?
My condolences to you Anthony and to all golden staters that care about the future of California. Here in Illinois our debt and deficit situation is just as bad, and it looks like we’ve just elected a governor (Quinn) that is hell-bent on raising state income taxes 33%. That will surely drive more businesses from our state, but at least we’re not facing economic suicide via misguided green politics.
I’d move my excavation and concrete construction business if I could. I wouldn’t blame you or anyone else for pulling up stakes and heading to a state that “gets it”.
Just some notes for y’all moving out Californea and are a comin’ to Texas.
1. Don’t tick off people in traffic – guns are legal and encouraged.
2. Don’t try to rob someone; even if you make it out of the house, we have a castle law that says we can shoot you in pursuit.
3. Pot is what you put food or flowers into.
4. Danglin’ prepositions are okay.
5. No such thang as illegal immigrants – either an immigrant or an illegal, not both.
6. Kill somebody in Texas and we’re goin’ to kill you back (courtesy Ron White).
7. If it’s hot when you get here, it’s not global warming, just either spring, summer or fall.
8. What-a-Burger is much superior to In and Out burgers.
9. Get a Texas license plate ASAP; otherwise you’re just another revenue stream.
10. Kinky Freidman is a radio personality, not your drug dealer.
“David L says:
November 3, 2010 at 1:35 am
Keep in mind that statistically speaking, 50% of the people are below average. How many folks truly knew what they were voting for?”
Then it is better that you dont vote at all.
Real estate is cheap in Vegas now…
The problem is how they worded it. Who in their right mind would vote for suspending a “pollution law”? No one. That’s why it failed…
Californians are so stupid.
They reject prop 19, which would have brought business to california that would have brought in tax revenue.
They reject prop 23, which would keep businesses from leaving due to unnecessary CO2 regulation.
So they’ve essentially handed all the power/responsibility towards getting out of the financial mess to the people who made the mess, the senate+assembly. These are the same people who go 3-5 months overdue every year passing a budget.
And all this while the state is practically insolvent.
California? Put a fork in it. It’s done. It will be the first state, ever, to declare bankruptcy if we can keep Big O from more financial bailouts.
Mike Haseler wrote:
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.
Unfortunately California is Too Big to Fail (sound familiar?)…. We’ll be bailing them out for years and years and years and…