Shownotes Transcript
In this episode of Life Matters, Brian Johnston along with California Pro-life’s Vice President Sheila Green, discuss some of the many ballot propositions on the November 2020 ballot in California.
First and foremost is Proposition 14 which renews funding for the CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. In short, the CRM had been established in 2004 via Proposition 71. It received over $6 billion after counting interest and it was all to be dedicated to embryonic stem cell research and other forms of research, which then President Bush had declared unethical. The federal government would not fund such research.
So ironically that proposition only funded unethical research!
None of the promised benefits occurred. No cures of any kind were found, and many funds were directed to mysterious places, as the CIRM did not, and continues to lack, government oversight.
They have now returned to the ballot and are asking for an additional $5.5 billion! We advise a ‘No’ vote.
Proposition 15 changes the tax structure on corporate buildings. The argument is to help fund the schools. This is a very common taxation and bond justification. Sadly, the schools are irresponsibly run and have become a literal bastion of leftist ideology. Planned Parenthood has easy access to the public school system, often without parents knowledge or consent. The education unions are 100% pro abortion, and the funds that are earmarked for maintenance and upkeep as required by law, have been pilfered through legal action by these union entities.
Education code 17070.75 mandates that these funds should have been set aside for annual repairs renewals and replacements. The teachers union simply pilfer the money and ask for more bond measures using the children as their empathy hostages. The California State Lotto has wasted $2 billion per annum. As with Proposition 19, there is a constant drumbeat to pour money into the education system where it has been used to grade harm.
Proposition 16 actually reverses current law and makes legal the intentional discrimination against individuals on the basis of race or age or any other factor. It is clear that the radical left now wishes to justify the extreme racial divisions it has been creating. One such example is the known and documented targeting of the black and Hispanic communities for abortion by Planned Parenthood
Proposition 18 would grant the vote to 17-year-olds provided they were to turn 18 on, or before, the general election. This measure allows a whole new category of vote harvesting by the Democrat party, and its Planned Parenthood associates who would simply be free to enter the classroom, indoctrinate and even instruct in voting methods before they harvested those same ballots without any parental knowledge or consent. We suggest a ‘No’ vote.
Proposition 19 alters the taxation methods of individual homes, but it is clearly designed to get more tax money into state coffers, principally the education coffers. See our concerns regarding proposition 15. We recommend a ‘No’.
Proposition 23 would impose new regulations and increased cost for kidney dialysis clinics. This measure with grant favorability to certain union employees would drive other more economical kidney dialysis units out of the state. Many dialysis patients are at risk of morbidity and mortality should they miss just two dialysis treatments. We recommend a ‘No’ vote.