With the May 19th Special Election rapidly approaching, Governor Schwarzeneggar is campaigning across the state to gain support for the propositions.
A California Field Poll commissioned for the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert revealed that voters overwhelmingly support solving the state budget crisis by reducing spending as opposed to increasing taxes. Although the voters support spending cuts, they do not support cuts of funding towards public schools, health care and higher education.
Click here to see the entire results of the field poll.
Are you ready for the Statewide Special Election? If not, learn more about the proprositions and the state budget process by downloading HOPE’s 2009 Budget Analysis.
Special Election Trivia:
*Only 6 statewide special elections have been called since 1973-half of them since 2003.
*Governors may call special elections to expedite voting on a qualified initiative or to keep an initiative off the general election ballot.
*In the last special election (2005), there was a 50.1% voter turnout.
(Courtesy of the Public Policy Institute of California)
