Local bloggers' voting suggestions
Sedosi and Matt Bramanti have each helpfully provided their own recommendations for voting on the proposed constitutional amendments.
The only proposition I am going to opine about here is Proposition 9, and I strongly support a NO vote, like Sedosi and Matt do. Here's Sedosi's take:
Prop 9: The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a six-year term for a board member of a regional mobility authority.
Position: Opposed The thought behind this amendment is that appointees need longer terms to do long range planning more effectively. What is lost here is that most long range planning is handled in 20 year increments, so this would have no effect on its efficacy one way or another. What this WOULD do is make regional transportation authorities even LESS accountable to the public. Some, of course, would view that as a GOOD thing. Of course, these same people tell you that your vote is important to them....
And Matt's:
Proposition 9: Against. Longer terms for mobility board members would only make them even less accountable to the public than they currently are.
Yes. We are looking for MORE accountability and transparency in our governmental bureacracies, not less.
It's also worth pointing out that the Chronicle's editorial board recommended voting YES. How unsurprising.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 10/28/05 06:56 AM | Print |
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