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On May 19th, Californians will be asked to vote on a series of measures determining where state budget funds can be allocated. This special election set up by Governor Schwarzenegger was cast as a way to involve the public in budget decision making – however, in recent days the Governor has warned that if the propositions fail, he will be forced to trim other programs. The May 19th ballot has a total of six state-wide propositions including 1A and 1B which are strategically linked to determine the fate of the education budget. Proposition 1A, which is the center-piece of the budget measures, would temporarily extend tax increases to help with a $42 billion budget shortfall, impose new spending restrictions, and increase the size of a \u201crainy day\u201d fund to more than 12% of the general fund. Prop 1B, which will be valid only if voters pass it _and_ 1A, requires supplemental payments totaling $9.3 billion for K-14 institutions to make up for recent cuts in the education budget. Prop 1B was devised by lawmakers and linked to 1A as a way to gain the support of teachers unions for both propositions. But likely voters according to a recent poll, are turned off by all but one of the six propositions. Propositions 1A-1E are all set to fail at the ballot – 1F, which caps lawmakers’ salaries in lean years is the only one looking like it may pass. <\/p>\n
GUEST: Jessica Levinson, Adjunct professor Loyola Law School, teaches campaign finance law and is the Director of Political Reform at the Center for Governmental Studies <\/em>. For more information, visit www.cgs.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program On May 19th, Californians will be asked to vote on a series of measures determining where state budget funds can be allocated. This special election set up by Governor Schwarzenegger was cast as a way to involve the public in budget decision making – however, in recent days the Governor has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}