- Supported PROPOSITION 1A--Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. This proposition passed.
The high-speed train funded by this proposition will reduce green house gas emissions and lessen the need to expand highways and airports.
- Supported PROPOSITION 3--Children's Hospital Bond Act. This proposition passed.
The League supported this effort to improve health care access for children who are indigent and uninsured.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 4--Waiting Period and Parental Notification before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. This proposition failed.
Mandatory notification laws may sound good but in the real world the League believes that they put the health and safety of teens in danger.
- Supported PROPOSITION 5--Nonviolent Drug Offenses. Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation. This proposition failed.
The League's study of juvenile justice affirmed the need to give funding priority to prevention, early intervention and rehabilitation.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 6--Police and Law Enforcement Funding. This proposition failed.
The League opposed the further restriction on the ongoing use of general funds, as well as the initiative providing for prosecuting more 14-year olds as adults.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 7--Renewable Energy Generation. This proposition failed.
The League believed that the proposition was poorly drafted and would not achieve its stated goals and woud actually disrupt the development of renewable energy.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 8--Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. This proposition passed.
The League opposed Proposition 22 in 2000 and continues to oppose such limits on the basic civil rights that should be guaranteed to all Californians.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 9--Criminal Justice System. Victim's Rights. Parole. This proposition passed.
The League believed that the proposition could undo many of the rights of prisoners and parolees to due process and asked voters to support victims' rights that are already protected under state law and was unnecessary.
- Opposed PROPOSITION 10--Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds. This proposition failed.
The League believed that the purposes of this bond measure were not an appropriate use for state-issued, bond-generated revenues.
- Supported PROPOSITION 11--Redistricting Reform. California Voters FIRST Act. This proposition passed.
The League strongly supported this measure to hold politicians accountable and help stop the gridlock in Sacramento that keeps pressing issues from being addressed.
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NOVEMBER 4, 2008 ELECTION STATE BALLOT PROPOSITIONS
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Updated 3/2/09 |