If you vote for prop 16, you are no longer my friend. Only a complete moron would vote for prop 16 and I don't like hanging out with morons. Luckily I don't think any of my friends are morons because I like you, so I'm not too worried, but I thought I would be fair and name the consequences of your actions if you do decide to turn into a moron.
There is a lot of legal language for prop 16, talking about Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), etc. Here's the gist, if someone wants to use public funds (which has a broad definition in this case) to start an electric company, expand one that's already in existence, or create one of those CCA's which are designed to promote clean (read: green) energy, they need a two thirds vote of the people who live in the area that would be served by the company. Seriously. Can you imagine 2/3'rds of the people voting on ANYTHING? Here are these public companies who now want to set up the State so nobody else can start an electric company unless the impossible happens. They are trying to have a monopoly and we are damn fools if we fall for it.
An editorial in the Oakland Tribune , which is right on, states:
"Prop. 16 would undermine the ability of local governments to create publicly owned and operated utilities throughout California by mandating a difficult-to-achieve two-thirds vote. It is even harder to get a two-thirds supermajority to forma public utility should PG&E fund the opposition, as it has in the past.
For example, four years ago, when cities in Yolo County tried to join the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, the move was rejected, in part, because of an $11 million negative campaign mounted by PG&E."
Guess who was the only backer to put this proposition on the ballot? PG&E. That's it. Nobody else. I wonder why? So far they have spent 35 million dollars on this measure.
Oh - and this is a Constitutional Amendment. It will be in our State Constitution.
I hate propositions.
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