{"id":78,"date":"2010-11-04T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/archives\/78"},"modified":"2010-11-04T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:16:33","slug":"dealing-with-prop-21-fail-and-prop-22-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/archives\/78","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Prop 21 (fail) and Prop 22 (pass)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>I have an idea: Since Prop 22 won, effectively allowing cities to keep <br \/>a certain chunk of money earmarked for Transportation and their <br \/>property taxes. Before that the State has been diverting this money to <br \/>public services, such as schools and new fire trucks. I think it&#8217;s a <br \/>good time for us, the rest of us, to start demanding that our public <br \/>officials spend that money properly. We don&#8217;t need any more malls, we <br \/>don&#8217;t need a new robotic parking lots. We need updated schools and <br \/>public spaces &#8211; parks! Since Prop 21 loss, State Parks aren&#8217;t going to <br \/>get their $18 per car. They have to continue relying on gate fees, <br \/>public trusts and donations. At this rate State Parks are going to go <br \/>to shit. More will shut down &#8211; not that nature will care. The worst <br \/>case scenario is that the state will have to sell the land, and <br \/>someone will develop it. Cities will use their Transporation funds to <br \/>build new and expensive highways through their new purchased watershed <br \/>turned toll road. <\/p>\n<p \/> Unless we do something about it. <\/p>\n<p \/> How about we demand that our cities maintain these state parks and <br \/>keep them as parks? <\/p>\n<p \/> Now for a rant: I know that a ton of these city officials are in bed <br \/>with developers. And maintaining a park isn&#8217;t going to make anyone <br \/>rich. But NO ONE should be getting rich at the expense of the people. <br \/>I don&#8217;t understand how we let it happen, and I don&#8217;t understand why it <br \/>continues. People should be volunteering time, money and resources for <br \/>things that the public needs. Meaning, no one should be getting rich <br \/>from public projects. But it appears tons of people are, including <br \/>public officials. My tax dollars shouldn&#8217;t be lining anyone&#8217;s pockets, <br \/>especially a multi-million dollar developer. <\/p>\n<p \/> Thinking about this really pisses me off. I could use Prop 19 right around now.      <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>  from <a href=\"http:\/\/reverend-dak.posterous.com\/dealing-with-prop-21-fail-and-prop-22-pass\">The Reverend Dak Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an idea: Since Prop 22 won, effectively allowing cities to keep a certain chunk of money earmarked for Transportation and their property taxes. Before that the State has been diverting this money to public services, such as schools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/archives\/78\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straycouches.com\/documents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}