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Local City Measure
NO on Measure S in San Bernardino, would not raise taxes so the Mayor can pay for sexual harassment lawsuits and give tax dollars to employees who work for the city but do not live in the city. Currently, only 10% of the employees working for the city are Black and only 5% are working in the police department. Only 8% of the sworn police officers live in the city and the city has never hired a Black as chief of police in 115 years. Blacks makeup 13.8% of the city population and pay taxes.
PROPOSITIONS
NO on Prop 14 taxpayers will be on the hook for $5.5 billion in bonds aimed at reviving the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), a program created in 2004 to boost stem cell research.
NO on Prop 15 would leave California’s Prop13 tax rules intact which is a benefit to older Black homeowners.
YES on Prop 16 would be a giant step to help undo the results of long-standing institutionalized race and gender discrimination that have been key to economic and social inequality. This would put California back in step with Federal Laws governing Equal Opportunity in Employment and Access into Educational Institution of Higher Learning.
YES on Prop 17 would make it legal for people to vote while on parole for a felony conviction.
YES on Prop 18 would make it legal for people who will turn 18 in time for the general election to vote, even while still 17, in that year’s primary.
NO on Prop 19 currently, a parent or grandparent can bestow their low tax rate while passing on a rental home or vacation property. That feature would be eliminated under Prop. 19.
NO on Prop 20 is being bankrolled by the state’s prison guards union and they are trying to keep the prisons full to protect their jobs. Plus it will be unjust to Blacks and Hispanic people by adding stiffer penalties for those who violate the terms of their parole three times and require DNA samples be taken from people convicted of misdemeanors.
NO on Prop 21 some say it could make a dent in homelessness a problem that is a crisis in our community. However, rent control does not work, as some have found out.
YES on Prop 22 is about Independent thinking people who use their cars and cell phones to work when they want to depending on their personal life situation. A yes vote also will provide new benefits such as healthcare and minimum wages. Plus we have a lot of Black people who love working for themselves.
NO on Prop 23 would mean at least one physician would have to be on-site at an operating dialysis clinic and add more expense to those who need the service.
NO on Prop 24 would expand and add to California’s two-year-old law on consumer data privacy and create another layer to an already confusing system.
NO on Prop 25 is a risk assessment system that would replace cash bail and is biased because it uses a computer program that is inflexible to human special needs in this special time of need. Plus it will put Black-owned Bail Bond people out of business.
