2008 General Election: Proposition 5
Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 11:50pmPROP 5 - NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENSES. SENTENCING, PAROLE AND REHABILITATION. INITIATIVE STATUTE.
It's late and I don't want to fall behind on the Proposition posts. I read through the analysis and I'm not impressed for the simple fact that this initiative adds an additional $460 million in mandatory spending that will increase with cost of living and population. I'm not going to pick this one apart and try to reason through it's merits because it requires the one thing we don't have, money.
I also object to this proposition because this really doesn't need to be decided by the people of California. We don't know anything about prison administration, corrections and probation, try reading the text of the law, we can't possibly make an informed decision on something like this. I just get the feeling that they couldn't get this through the legislature so they are trying their hand with us.
I'm voting NO.
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