| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | |
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1 | Item | Angrylamp's vote | Endorsements and advice | ||||||||||||||||||||
2 | My vote | Rationale | Pissed Off Voter Guide | San Jose Mercury | SF Chronicle | SF Young Democrats | SFBG | SF Democrats | Harvey Milk Club | Planned Parenthod CA | Liveable Cities | SPUR | SF Tenants Union | SF Bike Coalition | Berniecrats | SF Yimby | SF Green Party | SF GOP | SF CoC | Democratic Socialists | Progressive Democrats of America | ||
3 | CA & US Offices | Gov | Gavin Newsom | Only non-GOP choice. I am not a Democratic partisan, but I am categorically anti-GOP. At every turn they have chosen to wreck the machinery of democracy in this country, and any decent patriot would resign the GOP in protest. If you're still taking their money, you are not ethically qualified to govern. | Gavin Newsom | Gavin Newsom | Gavin Newsom | Gavin Newsom | Gavin Newsom | John Cox | |||||||||||||
4 | Lt Gov | Ed Hernandez | Ed is a congressperson with experience and a track record on various progressive issues. Eleni is an heiress without any experience. | Ed Hernandez | Eleni Kounalakis | Ed Hernandez | Eleni Kounalakis | Eleni Kounalakis | Ed Hernandez | Ed Hernandez | |||||||||||||
5 | Secretary of State | Alex Padilla | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Alex Padilla | Mark Meuser | ||||||||||||
6 | Controller | Betty Yee | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Betty Yee | Konstantinos Roditis | |||||||||||
7 | Treasurer | Fiona Ma | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | Fiona Ma | Fiona Ma | Fiona Ma | Fiona Ma | Fiona Ma | Greg Conlon | ||||||||||||||
8 | Attorney General | Xavier Becerra | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Bacerra | Steven Bailey | |||||||||||
9 | Insurance Commissioner | Ricardo Lara | Ricardo is a progressive LGBT candidate, pro-single-payer authored SB 562. Polzner is an anti-immigration wing-nut stealth GOP candidate. | Ricardo Lara | Steve Poizner | Steve Poizner | Ricardo Lara | Ricardo Lara | Ricardo Lara | Ricardo Lara | Ricardo Lara | ||||||||||||
10 | Board of Equalization District 2 | Malia Cohen | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | Malia Cohen | Malia Cohen | Malia Cohen | Malia Cohen | Malia Cohen | Malia Cohen | Mark Burns | |||||||||||||
11 | State Assembly, District 17 | N/A | Not on my ballot | No Endorsement | David Chiu | Jovanka Beckles | David Chiu | Alejandro Fernandez | David Chiu | Keith Bogdon | |||||||||||||
12 | State Assembly, District 19 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Phil Ting | Phil Ting | Phil Ting | Phil Ting | Phil Ting | Phil Ting | ||||||||||||||
13 | State Assembly, District 28 | Evan Low | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Senate | Kevin De Leon | More progressive than Feinstein. Feinstein's senior post on Judiciary hasn't mattered, since GOP is confirming radically conservative justices across the land at a record rate. If she can't stop that then she's dead to me. | Kevin de León | Dianne Feinstein | Dianne Feinstein | Kevin De León | Kevin De León | Kevin de Leon | Kevin De León | Kevin De León | ||||||||||||
15 | Congress, District 12 | Nancy Pelosi | Not on my ballot, but Pelosi is a well-regarded leader poised to become the House Majority leader in 2019. Also I like how much the GOP hates her :) | No Endorsement | Nancy Pelosi | Nancy Pelosi | Nancy Pelosi | Nancy Pelosi | Lisa Remmer | ||||||||||||||
16 | Congress, District 14 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Jackie Speier | Jackie Speier | Jackie Speier | Jackie Speier | Jackie Speier | Cristina Osmeña | ||||||||||||||
17 | Congress, District 19 | Zoe Lofgren | Only non-GOP choice. See above. | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Superintendant of Public Instruction | Tony Thurmond | Better track record of success in politics, more experience prioritizing protection of vulnerable students. | Tony Thurmond | Marshall Tuck | Marshall Tuck | Tony Thurmond | Tony Thurmond | Tony Thurmond | Tony Thurmond | Tony Thurmond | ||||||||||||
19 | California Propositions | NOTE ON BALLOT PROPOSITIONS: While I do consider the merits of these issues, I have a general "vote no" bias toward ballot measures. They're often a crutch for failure to legislate, so sometimes I vote NO even if it sort of doesn't sound so bad. Better reasons for ballot measures include bonds, controversial / "political third rail" issues, and procedural fixes to the ballot measure process itself. | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 1: $4B Bond for Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond | YES | Widely supported spending on low-income housing. You'd only be against this if you're generally against public assistance. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||
21 | 2: Allow Previous Bond Money to Be Used for Homeless Housing | YES | Broadly supported; removes encumbrances on spending for mental illness housing. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
22 | 3: Increase water project bond from June to $8.9B | NO | California needs water projects, but I am persuaded by the Merc analysis that it is too heavily earmarked, and not supported by the legislature. | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | |||||||||
23 | 4: $1.5B Bond for Children’s Hospitals | YES | This is basically a vote for more state-subsidised healthcare. I don't like that it's kinda specific to one type of care, but pediatric care is a good bang-for-buck public health investment, so sure. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||||||
24 | 5: Expand Prop 13 for Property Owners (Gives old people a discount on property tax when they move) | LOL NO | Prop 13 is ruinously flawed, so I am not in favor of expanding it in any way. Especially not for rich boomers with multi-million dollar homes because there's no means-testing in the proposition. If senior citizens want subsidized housing we can vote on a more sensible policy for that. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||
25 | 6: Eliminate Gas Tax (that was passed last year, and future tax increases must be approved by voters) | NO | The gas tax was too low before, so indexing to inflation is sensible. That's why I voted for it barely 4 months ago! I realize that a gas tax is somewhat regressive, but low gas prices have a proven effect on increasing the purchase (and manufacture!) of inefficient vehicles. Disincentivizing this is a higher priority for me than helping poor people get to work in their Escalades. (Yes, regulators could more directly address fuel efficiency with standards, but with a corrupt federal EPA, this is one of our only remaining levers.) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |||||
26 | 7: Eliminate Daylight Saving Time (will still need congressional approval) | YES | DST is stupid. This doesn't get rid of it, but it takes a wonky, procedural step in that direction by fixing the previous ballot measure. | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
27 | 8: Limit the profits of kidney dialysis clinics | NO | Ugh. I dislike for-profit dialysis, so I would not fault you for voting yes. But regulating healthcare profits and standards of care should be part of a larger California healthcare policy. We can't bring every little thing like this to the ballot. (Also these companies are making 19% profit, which is within the ACA regulated 20% margin applied to insurers. If California wants to lower profit thresholds further, why not do it across all essential care types?) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||
28 | 9: Three californias, kicked off ballot lol | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 10: Repeal Costa Hawkins! Allow Expansion of Rent Control (Allows rent control again) | NO | I am swayed by SPUR's arguments. I have no love for Costa Hawkins, the date thresholds are stupid and should be modernized. But I don't trust municipalities to competently self-regulate. The state should provide some guard rails to keep local policies from indulging their worst anti-growth tendencies. Like, are Cupertino, Mountain View, Los Altos, and Palo Alto going to set the right policies for young renters? Of course not. | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||||
30 | 11: Require Private Ambulances to Remain on Call During Work Breaks, instead of leaving it to the courts | NO | Companies should not attempt to bypass labor negotiations by buying a ballot measure. | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
31 | 12: New Standards for Confinement of Farm Animals (sets minimum requirements for space for farm animals) | NO | I'm not against animals, but I am against micro-managing the state via ballot measures. A decision this small and uncontroversial should be the purvue of the legislature and state regulators. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||
32 | Judicial confirmations | NOTE ON JUSTICES: I don't know much about these people. For each one I looked at which governor appointed them, tried to find something on Ballotpedia saying if they were generally conservative or otherwise shitty, and searched Google for "<judge name> key rulings". | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Confirm Leondra Kruger to CA Supreme Court | YES | No strong opinion; Jerry Brown (D) appointee. | ||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Confirm Carol Corrigan to CA Supreme Court | NO | Carol Corrigan is a GOP appointee who voted to uphold bans on same-sex marriage. Appointed by Arnie (R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Confirm Allison M. Danner to CA 6th Court of Appeal | YES | No strong opinion; Jerry Brown (D) appointee. | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Confirm Nathan Mihara to CA 6th Court of Appeal | abstain | No opinion. Appointed by Pete Wilson (R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Confirm Mary J. Greenwood to CA 6th Court of Appeal | YES | No strong opinion. Appointed by Jerry Brown (D) | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Local offices | Santa Clara / San Jose local issues | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Santa Clara County Sheriff | Laurie Smith | No strong opinion, but Laurie is the encumbant, and has endorsements from most of the county and city council and mayor's offices. | John Hirokawa | |||||||||||||||||||
40 | San Jose Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2 | Helen Chapman | Experienced and well endorsed. She does seem like more of a "politician" than Jose Magana since she did already run for City Council last election. But Magana seems naive and has bad-smelling "private partnerships" proposals. (Also I enjoy voting for the opposite of whatever the Merc recommends!) | Jose Magana | |||||||||||||||||||
41 | Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors District 4 | Don Rocha | Smart, effective, and experienced city council member. The Merc hates him because he is "pro labor". Sounds good to me! | Susan Ellenberg | |||||||||||||||||||
42 | Local measures | A: Continue Santa Clara County sales tax | NO | I don't want to de-fund the county. But sales taxes are regressive, so this money should come from a property tax or business tax. | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
43 | S: Construction Contract Policy | YES | I'm not well educated on this, but more leeway in bid selection sounds reasonable as long as local journalism keeps tabs on corruption or croney-ism. It's definitely true that lowest-bidder shackles have made us botch projects. | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
44 | T: $650M Infrastructure bond | YES | Generally in favor of funding infrastructure. No corruption or ear-marking noted in Merc's analysis. | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | U: Salary and Ballot amendments to City Charter | YES | I'm in favor of fixing conflicts-of-interest, since they're vulnerable to corruption by the bad politicians and paralytic to the good politicians. | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
46 | V: $450M Affordable housing bond | YES | Generally in favor of funding public assistance. No corruption or ear-marking noted in Merc's analysis. | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
47 | San Francisco stuff | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | SF Props | A: Seawall Earthquake Safety Bond | N/A | Not on my ballot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||
49 | B: Privacy First Act | N/A | Not on my ballot | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |||||||||
50 | C: Our City, Our Home | N/A | Not on my ballot | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||
51 | D: Cannabis Businesses Tax | N/A | Not on my ballot | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||||||||||
52 | E: Hotel Tax Allocation for Arts and Cultural Purposes | N/A | Not on my ballot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||
53 | SF Local Races | Supe District 2 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Nick Josefowitz | Catherine Stefani | Catherine Stefani | Nick Josefowitz | Nick Josefowitz | John Dennis | |||||||||||||
54 | Supe District 4 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Gordon Mar | Jessica Ho | Gordon Mar | Gordon Mar | Gordon Mar | Gordon Mar | Gordon Mar | #1: Gordon Mar; #2: Trevor McNeil | Gordon Mar | Trevor McNeil | ||||||||||
55 | Supe District 6 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Matt Haney | Christine Johnson | Matt Haney | Matt Haney | Matt Haney | Matt Haney | Matt Haney | #1: Matt Haney; #2: Christine Johnson | Matt Haney | Sonja Trauss | ||||||||||
56 | Supe District 8 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | Rafael Mandelman | |||||||||
57 | Supe District 10 | N/A | Not on my ballot | #1 Tony Kelly #2 Uzuri Pease-Greene | Shamann Walton | Shamann Walton | 1. Tony Kelly, 2. Shamann Walton | Shamann Walton | #1 Tony Kelly, #2 Shamann Walton | Shamann Walton | Tony Kelly and Shamann Walton | Shamann Walton and Theo Ellington | Tony Kelly, Asale-Haquekyah Chandler, Gloria Berry | Theo Ellington | Tony Kelly | ||||||||
58 | Board of Education | N/A | Not on my ballot | Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, Faauuga Moliga | Michelle Parker, Phil Kim, Alida Fisher | Allison Collins, Faauuga Molina, Li Miao Lovett | Alison Collins, Faauuga Moliga, Li Miao Lovett | Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, & Mia Satya | Gabriela Lopez, Alison Collins | Michelle Parker | |||||||||||||
59 | Community College Board | N/A | Not on my ballot | Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby | Thea Shelby, Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo | Brigette Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby | Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, & Thea Selby | Brigitte Davila, John Rizzo, Thea Selby | Victor Olivieri | ||||||||||||||
60 | Public Defender | N/A | Not on my ballot | Jeff Adachi | Jeff Adachi | Jeff Adachi | Jeff Adachi | Jeff Adachi | Jeff Adachi | ||||||||||||||
61 | Assessor-Recorder | N/A | Not on my ballot | Paul Bellar | Carmen Chu | Carmen Chu | Paul Bellar | Carmen Chu | |||||||||||||||
62 | BART Board, District 8 | N/A | Not on my ballot | Janice Li | Jonathan Lyens | Jonathan Lyens | Janice Li | Janice Li | Janice Li | Janice Li | Eva Chao | ||||||||||||