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Clinton Wants Universal Preschool Program

KOCO Oklahoma City (FL)

May 21, 2007

MIAMI BEACH -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a $10 billion federal program aimed at providing voluntary pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-old children in America.

She said quality pre-kindergarten programs will more than pay for themselves because children will be less likely to enter special education programs, drop out of school or enter the welfare system.

Did Republicans overplay their hand with anti-Internet gambling bill?

International Herald Tribune

November 3, 2006

A Republican-sponsored effort to clamp down on Internet gambling may turn out to be a bad bet for the Republican Party just days away from congressional elections.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law Oct. 13, has infuriated many voters who enjoy betting on sports or playing poker online, analysts said.

No on 86 - Stop the $2 Billion Tax Hike

stop86.org

October 3, 2006

Vote No on Proposition 86 - Stop the $2 Billion Tax Hike

We all want to improve our healthcare system, but Proposition 86 is the wrong solution. Prop. 86 is an unfair tax increase supported by special interests who are amending our Constitution and statutes to benefit themselves.

Vote No on 86

Vote No on 86

October 3, 2006

Vote No on Proposition 86. Who really benefits from Prop 86? Learn more.

Allocates less than 10% of the tax revenues toward helping cigarette, cigar and smokeless tobacco consumers quit or keeping kids from starting.

Vote No On 87

No Oil Tax

October 3, 2006

Vote no on prop 87 the $4 billion oil tax that will increase California oil taxes, lead to higher prices at the pump, and greater dependence on foreign oil.

"California faces an ever-growing array of potential threats to our safety and well-being, from wildfires to floods and earthquakes. Measures like Prop 87 that bleed vital revenue away from local and state government make it harder for California firefighters to respond to those threats."

Cigarette tax plan would insure kids, reimburse ER care...

San Francisco Chronicle (CA)

September 26, 2006

Tobacco firms call Prop. 86 a power grab by hospitals. Proposition 86 would raise the excise tax on a pack of cigarettes from 87 cents to $2.60, generating an estimated $2.1 billion a year.

Hospitals and health care groups are betting that California voters don't care whether smokers have to pay higher taxes on cigarettes if the money collected goes to fund health care programs.

New RFK Jr. article will explore if 2006 election can be hacked

The Raw Story

September 21, 2006

In the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with award-winning writer Dick Russell, deepens his investigation into America's electoral process.

"In 2002, privately owned Diebold, the world's third-largest seller of ATMs, was awarded a contract to install 19,000 voting machines across the state of Georgia even though its bid was the highest among nine competing vendors, and it had only recently completed its acquisition of Global Election Systems (a voting-machine firm that owned the technology Diebold was promising to sell Georgia)."

League of Women Voters Refuse to Sponsor Rigged Gubernatorial Debate

News With Views (OR)

September 5, 2006

Salem -- After defeating an election challange by Attorney Kelly Clark, who attempted to have her removed from the November ballot, Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Mary Starrett is being prevented from participating in the upcoming televised de

The Rogue Valley chapter of the League of Women Voters decided to withdraw its sponsorship of the gubernatorial debate because the two party-machine candidates -- Republican Saxton and incumbant Democrat Gov. Ted Kulongoski -- gave third party candidates the thumbs down.

Editorial: The Democrats' morning after

San Francisco Chronicle (CA)

June 8, 2006

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides should begin the general-election campaign by asking himself why so many of his party brethren are expressing such little enthusiasm for his nomination.

The low turnout was not the only signal that Angelides might want to rethink strategies between now and November. The resounding defeat of Proposition 82, which would have taxed upper-income earners to subsidize universal preschool, suggests that voters statewide are looking warily at tax increases and government expansion.

Props. 82, 81 rejected

Contra Costa Times (CA)

June 6, 2006

CALIFORNIA VOTERS soundly rejected an effort to create universal preschools throughout the state.

In defeating Proposition 82, Californians wisely ended a two-year effort by actor Rob Reiner and other backers of creating state-operated preschools with revenue solely from high-income taxpayers. Evidently voters realized that Prop. 82 was unfair taxation of a mobile sector of the population and that the measure was a highly inefficient way to provide preschools for children who were not already attending classes. Proposition 81, the statewide library bond measure, also went down to defeat even though Democrats, who usually favor such issues, came out in larger numbers than Republicans.

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