by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Sec. Bowen just announced that she has assigned numbers for the boatload of initiatives that will be on the ballot in November.

So get used to these numbers.  You are going to be seeing these a lot on this website, your TV screen and your mailbox.  We need to refine the shorthand for these initiatives.  This admittedly a quick pass at it.  The framing needs to be tweaked and I am sure there will be some argument within the progressive left about these initiatives.

Prop. 1 High Speed Rail

Prop 2 Treatment of Farm Animals

Prop 3 Children's Hospital Bond

Prop 4 Parental Notification

Prop 5 Parole and Rehab of Nonviolent Offenders

Prop 6 Tough on Crime

Prop 7 Renewable Energy

Prop 8 Take Away Marriage Equality

Prop 9 Victims Rights and Parole

Prop 10 Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy Bonds

Prop 11 Redistricting

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I'm sitting in the resolutions cmte now, but I want to post our positions on the propositions. YES: Bonds: HSR, Children's Hospital, Alternative fuel vehicles Treatment of farm animals. Sentencing of nonviolent offenders NO: Parental Notification, Criminal Penalties and public safety funding, solar and renewable energy, limit on marriage, redistricting No position: Victims rights

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

At the California State Democratic Convention in San Jose today, the political director of Planned Parenthood of California gave warning that two wealthy anti-choice donors plan, for the third time, to place a proposition on the ballot that would require parental notification for minors seeking an abortion. California voters have twice rejected the proposition, because it can put teenagers' lives at risk.

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I have a bunch of things that might have been more appropriate for Quick Hits, but rather than flooding the Quick Hits Section, I'll do it here. So, here we go: