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The clock is ticking. With just 53 days until Election Day, we need your help to defeat Prop 53, one multimillionaire’s attack on local control.
Prop 53 is opposed by a broad, bipartisan coalition of more than 230 organizations because it requires a statewide vote even for some local infrastructure projects, thereby allowing voters in faraway regions to intervene and reject projects your community needs and supports. It would add new layers of bureaucracy and red tape that could delay or derail needed improvements to critical infrastructure, including after emergencies and natural disasters.
Here’s what leading California newspapers have warned in editorials opposing Prop 53:
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“It’s written so broadly that it could give state voters veto power over large but purely local projects in which they have little or no stake…the potential damage to local control is real.”
LA Times, 9/15/2016 |
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The Prop 53 “ballot measure is a mess. It is so poorly written that it doesn’t even define ‘project’… And Proposition 53 doesn’t exempt emergency repairs following earthquakes or disasters.”
San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/13/2016 |
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“[Prop 53] could be fiscal disaster spawning lawsuits, delays and higher costs… The risks of unintended consequences are high. Vote ‘no’ on Prop 53.”
San Francisco Chronicle, 8/31/2016 |
We can defeat Prop 53 and save local control, but it will take all of us:
Share now, and let’s vote No on Prop 53 on November 8!
Thank you for your continued opposition to Prop 53!
Paid for by No on Prop 53 – Californians to Protect Local Control, a coalition of public safety, local government, business and labor organizations, and taxpayers. Major funding by California Construction Industry Labor Management Cooperation Trust and Members’ Voice of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (Committee). |
