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California propositions: Proponents and opponents have spent over $300 million this yr

Editorial Board Published November 3, 2024
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The ten propositions on the California poll this yr are chargeable for a spending frenzy, with campaigns shelling out greater than $300 million as they attempt to get their messaging to voters.

By far the largest fundraiser this yr has been the opposition to Proposition 33, which might permit cities and counties to impose strict lease caps on all varieties of housing. By means of Oct. 19, the tip of the pre-election marketing campaign finance reporting interval, the principle “No on 33” committee had raised $77 million, principally from the California Residence Affiliation.

Since then, the Residence Affiliation has dropped an extra $11.5 million into their committee’s coffers, with “No on Prop. 33” adverts warning it might enhance housing prices nonetheless operating on TV and streaming providers, with the hope of swaying those that have but to fill out their ballots.

These ballots, presumably nonetheless hanging out on the kitchen tables of lots of California’s 22 million registered voters, embrace a number of pages devoted to the propositions that made it via the Golden State’s complicated, century-old direct democracy course of.

“We are asking Californians to make decisions on some pretty complex stuff,” mentioned Melissa Michelson, political science professor at Menlo Faculty.

“Political scientists will tell you, direct democracy is hugely popular,” Michelson mentioned, “but it’s not necessarily a good way to make policy, because you can only vote yes or no.”

Ten propositions is a mean quantity to look on the poll, however this yr’s measures are combating an uphill battle, “overshadowed by the presidential race because it’s such a contentious one,” based on Shaun Bowler, a political science professor at UC Riverside.

“These policy proposals have got to make their voice heard above all the noise of the presidential race — and boy, that’s difficult,” Bowler mentioned.

The overall spent on this yr’s propositions doesn’t fairly attain the report $357 million on-line playing firms and tribal casinos raised for a pair of measures that will have legalized sports activities betting within the Golden State in 2022.

Earlier than that, the state’s most dear proposition was Proposition 22 — when Uber, Lyft and DoorDash forked over greater than $200 million in 2020 to beat again a state legislation that will deal with their drivers as staff.

On the finish of October, the California Secretary of State reported simply over 6 million votes had already been forged.

Whereas opposition spending has been twice as excessive, Proposition 33 additionally impressed the second-most “Yes” spending, with almost $42 million spent in help of the proposition via Oct. 19.

Proposition 35 has garnered essentially the most “Yes” spending of any of the measures, with over $50 million spent, and no opposition spending to talk of. The proposition would make everlasting a tax that helps pay for Medi-Cal well being care providers, the state’s Medicaid program that gives well being take care of low-income Californians.

All collectively, “it’s an incomprehensibly large amount of money,” Bowler mentioned. “But the task that these campaigns have is telling voters [their message] … and there’s going to be 20 million voters.”

A few of the extra complicated or particular propositions have to do much more to speak with voters, and that’s the place endorsements from environmental teams or native unions assist individuals resolve, based on Bowler.

Then again, some propositions, like Proposition 3, are extra easy — and generate much less spending.

Proposition 3 would overturn 2008’s Proposition 8, which outlined marriage as between a person and a girl. Since same-sex marriage was legalized in California in 2013, and nationally in 2015, it’s extra of a symbolic proposition and one the place much less cash has been spent as a result of individuals already know the way they really feel.

“If you’ve already made up your mind, and it’s a pretty clear-cut issue, then it doesn’t matter how many ads you get,” Michelson mentioned.

The $300 million works out to $13 per registered voter, which is on pattern. “In the past couple of cycles, we’ve just had over and over again these super large amounts of money being spent,” Michelson mentioned.

Bowler compares it to the promoting finances for a quick meals chain like Domino’s however with further challenges. “We like pizza, we don’t like politics,” he mentioned.

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