Prop 43 limits voters' ability to fund essential local services and gives even more power to corporations. Vote No on Prop 43 to protect your vote and keep the power where it belongs: with you and your neighbors.
Prop 43 ties your community's hands. Communities around California are passing local measures to fund essential local services. Prop 43 lets a small minority block that funding, even when a clear majority of voters say Yes. Prop 43 attacks voters' ability to support police and fire departments, fund wildfire prevention, fix local roads, staff our local schools, or backfill federal health care cuts.
Corporations already have too much power in our elections. Prop 43 gives them even more. When voters try to pass local ballot measures to make corporations pay their fair share, the corporations would only need one-third of the vote to block it. Prop 43 protects the powerful few at everyone else’s expense.
California families are already stretched to the breaking point. If Prop 43 had been the law, California communities would have lost nearly $3 billion a year in funding for firefighters, 911 response, childcare, homelessness solutions, street repair, parks, and libraries. Making it harder to pass local ballot measures only empowers the corporations who don't want to pay their fair share.
Right now, local voters decide how to fund their own communities by majority vote. Below are some examples of how Prop 43 would have impacted CA communities:
LA fires: Two months before the Palisades and Eaton fires, LA County voters approved $152 million a year for firefighters, engines, and helicopters. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
San Francisco: 61% of San Francisco voters approved $62 million a year to raise teacher pay and keep teachers in the city's public schools. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
San Diego: 65% of San Diego voters approved a hotel tax paid by tourists, $82 million a year for homelessness services, road repair, and updating their convention center. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
Sonoma: After the Tubbs and Kincade fires, 61% of Sonoma County voters approved $60 million a year for wildfire prevention, brush clearing, and emergency response. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
Los Angeles County: 58% of LA County voters approved over $600 million a year to get people off the streets and into housing. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
Alameda: 64% of Alameda County voters approved $150 million a year for child care and the pediatric trauma center at Children's Hospital Oakland. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
Santa Cruz County: 60% of Santa Cruz County voters approved funding for wildfire prevention, clean water, and beach protection. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.
Fremont: 65% of voters in the Washington Township Health Care District approved $13 million a year for their local hospital. Under Prop 43, it would have failed.