YES ON PROPOSITION 40

It is necessary to vote yes on Proposition 40. A YES keeps the excellent redistricting that we have finally achieved.

If you vote 'no' on Prop 40, the California Supreme Court will appoint the redistricting people. This will result in the California Supreme Court being unable to rule on redistricting because they will have a legal conflict of interest. Then the only people able to rule on redistricting will be the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

It is amazing how stupid the proponents of Proposition 40 were. They did not notice the nasty side effect until they had already spent millions on qualifying the Proposition for the ballot. BTW, I am extremely proud of the engineer who spotted this problem.

I am voting YES on Propositions 30, 34, 36, and 40. I am voting NO on all the other propositions.

It is really too bad that the sex trafficking law was so badly written. But good ideas are not enough. You have to very carefully write law so that the effects are what you want. Perhaps we can get the new legislature to pass a sex trafficking act that is reasonable and effective. Food labeling has to be done at the federal level or it really hurts California farmers. The food proposition is also fairly illogical.

If you pass a bad proposition, the legislature is unable to fix the problem. This is because propositions trump laws passed by the legislature.