{"id":869,"date":"2008-11-05T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/05\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-hangover-edition-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","slug":"2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-hangover-edition-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-hangover-edition-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Election Central &#8211; Hangover Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>According to the election results from the Secretary of State&#8217;s office this morning, we Californians are a bunch of irresponsible, reactionary bigots with hearts of gold. Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the jackassery that took place yesterday. This is with 94.6% of the precincts reporting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prop 1A &#8211; Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act:<\/b> Remember how we don&#8217;t have any money and nobody&#8217;s buying bonds in this economic climate? Remember how this proposition posits that if we sell ten billion dollars in bonds, that will encourage the feds and private companies to <i>give<\/i> us the rest of the money we&#8217;d need to build a new science fiction choo choo train? And how insane is that? This one is winning 52.3% to 47.7% Holy crap. Are you people drunk?<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 2 &#8211; Standards for Confining Farm Animals:<\/b> Happy cows win 63.3% to 36.7%. Aw, you guys are swell.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 3 &#8211; Children&#8217;s Hospital Bond Act:<\/b> We still have a huge deficit, but what the heck, let&#8217;s make it more huger! Winning 54.8% to 45.2%<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 4 &#8211; Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor&#8217;s Pregnancy<\/b> The voters think this should lose (I eventually did too), and it is 47.6% to 52.4%<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 5 &#8211; Nonviolent Drug Offenses. Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation:<\/b> Also losing 40.2% to 59.8% It would let &#8220;drug dealers back out on the streets&#8221; after all. Or something.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 6 &#8211; Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws:<\/b> This one is also losing big&mdash;30.5% to 69.5% I&#8217;ve heard that people just didn&#8217;t like the budgetary constraints but others didn&#8217;t like the creation of brand new crimes.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 7 &#8211; Renewable Energy Generation:<\/b> This needed to fail and it is failing 35.0% to 65.0%<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 8 &#8211; Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry:<\/b> Bigots win! 52.1% to 47.9%<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 9 &#8211; Criminal Justice System. Victim&#8217;s Rights. Parole:<\/b> Yeah, this one is winning too 53.3% to 46.7% The constitution&mdash;it&#8217;s not just for defining fundamental rights anymore!<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 10 &#8211; Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy Bonds: <\/b> I guess T. Boone Pickens will have to build his own natural gas stations. This one is failing hard 40.1% to 59.9%<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 11 &#8211; Redistricting:<\/b> This is barely squeaking by, winning by one percentage point, 50.5% to 49.5% Cross whatever you have that&#8217;s crossable and hope this passes. It&#8217;s our ticket to getting rid of the fools in the capitol.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prop 12 &#8211; Veterans&#8217; Bond Act of 2008:<\/b> I don&#8217;t see how you could vote against this, but 36.5% did. Not good enough to beat the 63.5% of voters in favor. This would be an example, I think, of people not reading the sample ballot. I know, horror!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So thanks for stopping in for our election coverage and thanks for voting, you schizophrenic nutjobs.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, According to the election results from the Secretary of State&#8217;s office this morning, we Californians are a bunch of irresponsible, reactionary bigots with hearts of gold. Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the jackassery that took place yesterday. This is with 94.6% of the precincts reporting: Prop 1A &#8211; Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-5-jaunty-election-central-hangover-edition-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Election Central &#8211; Hangover Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,18],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elections","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}