DEMS EXPLORE 2012 BALLOT MEASURES TONIGHT
Westside Democratic headquarters, on the Third Street Promenade in Santa
Monica, will be the site of a presentation, “What Voters Need to Know about the California Ballot Propositions 2012,” tonight, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Assembly Member Mike Davis (not the very self-important writer Mike Davis), District 48, will discuss Proposition 36: Improves California’s Three Strikes Law, which he co-sponsored, Proposition 31: Overriding Public Health and Environmental Laws, and Proposition 38: Middle-class tax hike that hits everyone earning over $7,317.
Gil Garcetti, former Los Angeles County District Attorney, current
photographer and father of a likely future mayor of L.A., will talk about Proposition 34, which would replace Death Penalty with Life without Parole.
Dr. Vivian Price, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies/PACE, Coordinator, Labor Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Prop 32 that allows SuperPACs and special interests to buy elections.
Sahaja Douglass and Mark Centkowski, Prop 37: GMO-Labeling – the right to know what’s in your food
An Overview of all of the other Propositions by WLADC President Alan Bail and WLADC Board Member and former President of the Westwood-Westside Democratic Club Stephanie Nordlinger
Q & A after each speaker.
There will probably be food. Please RSVP to Cara. For more information, or to volunteer, HQ: westsidedemhq@gmail.com 310-395-0155. Phone banking immediately before meeting from 5 – 6:45pm on Proposition 30 YES and Proposition 32 NO
Westside Democratic Headquarters, 1408 Third Street Promenade, 3rd Fl. (ocean side, just south of Santa Monica Blvd., and Anthropologie)
Prop. 34 creates several problems for CA: The 729 on death row murdered at least 1,279 people, with 230 children. 43 were police officers. 211 were raped, 319 were robbed, 66 were killed in execution style, and 47 were tortured. 11 murdered other inmates.
The arguments in support of Pro. 34, the ballot measure to abolish the death penalty, are exaggerated at best and, in most cases, misleading and false.
No “savings.” Alleged savings ignore increased life-time medical costs for aging inmates and require decreased security levels and housing 2-3 inmates per cell rather than one. Rather than spending 23 hours/day in their cell, inmates will be required to work. These changes will lead to increased violence for other inmates and guards and prove unworkable for these killers.
No “accountability.” Max earnings for any inmate would amount to $383/year (assuming 100% of earnings went to victims), divided by number of qualifying victims. Hardly accounts for murdering a loved one.
No “full enforcement” as 729 inmates do not receive penalty given them by jurors. Also, for the 34,000 inmates serving life sentences, there will be NO increased penalty for killing a guard or another inmate. They’re already serving a life sentence.
Liberals are also trying to get rid of life sentences. (Human Rights Watch, Old Behind Bars, 2012.) This would lead to possible paroles for not only the 729 on death row, but the 34,000 others serving life sentences. Remember Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Darryl Thomas Kemp, Kenneth Allen McDuff, and Bennie Demps?
Arguments of innocence bogus. Can’t identify one innocent person executed in CA. Can’t
identify one person on CA’s death row who has exhausted his appeals and has a plausible claim of innocence. See http://cadeathpenalty.webs.com/
Give me one other organization that fights for worker’s rights.
If this was to hurt the big corporate interest why are they the ones putting money into this campaign to pass? The Koch bros., Carl Rove, big oil companies, and insurance companies, wall street bankers and developers. That’s because they are all exempt from Prop 32.
Labor rights aren’t etched in stone. They were won through politics and collective bargaining. So if you’re the 99% that have to work for a living say, “good bye” to, vacation leave, health insurance, 8 hour work day, minimum wage, work place health and safety laws, overtime pay, unemployment, child labor laws, meal breaks, nurse patient ratios just to name a few. Screw 32 vote NO