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ENDORSED INITIATIVES & CANDIDATES FOR NOVEMBER 7TH 2006 ELECTION
CRP Initiatives Committee Report
Mike Spence- Chair
Positions on Statewide Ballot Measures
November 2006 General Election Ballot
*Proposition 1A: CRP Position: Support
Titled the Transportation Investment Fund,? This measure restricts how and when the sales tax on gasoline, dedicated to transportation projects by Proposition 42.
*Proposition 1B: CRP Position: Support
The Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, Port Security Bond Act of 2006? is a $19.9 billion bond measure.
*Proposition 1C: CRP Position: Oppose
Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006? is a $10.4 billion bond measure.
*Proposition 1D: CRP Position: Neutral
Education facilities: Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006? is a $10.4 billion bond measure.
*Proposition 1E: CRP Position: Support
Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006? $4.1 billion bond measure. Known as the Levee Bond.
*Proposition 83: CRP Position: Support
Jessica's Law initiative requires, among other things, lifetime GPS (Global Positioning System) devices on sex offenders while increasing penalties for violent and habitual sex offenders and child molesters.
*Proposition 84: CRP Position: Oppose
Titled Water Quality, Safety and Supply. Flood Control. Natural Resource Protection. Park Improvements,? this $5.4 billion water quality and water supply bond.
*Proposition 85: CRP Position: Support
Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy? is the official ballot title of this initiative.
*Proposition 86: CRP Position: Oppose
Titled Tax on Cigarettes,? this initiative would increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $2.60, with the money going to health and emergency services programs. It takes the excise tax from 87 cents to $3.47 per pack.
*Proposition 87: CRP Position: Oppose
It is officially called ?Alternative Energy, Research, Production, Incentives, Tax on California Oil.? It would tax oil companies up to 6 percent, depending on the price per barrel of oil, for oil extracted in California . It establishes a $4 billion program to reduce oil and gasoline usage by 25 percent, with funding from the tax used to conduct research and provide incentives for alternative energy production.
*Proposition 88: CRP Position: Oppose
Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax,? is an initiative to levy a $50 parcel tax statewide, raising up to $500 million a year for certain educational programs.
*Proposition 89: CRP Position: Oppose
Political Campaigns, Public Financing, Corporate Tax Increase.? It increases the 8.4 percent corporate income tax rate by raising more than $200 million annually for public financing of campaigns. It also restricts campaign contributions by corporations (but not labor unions).
*Proposition 90: CRP Position: Support
Titled Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property,? this initiative reforms the use of eminent domain laws, limiting government authority and protecting the rights of property owners.
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