MARCH 5 PRIMARY BALLOT PROPOSITION
Gun Owners of California does not weigh in on Initiatives that have no bearing on the Second Amendment. However, because we receive a significant number of inquiries with regard to California’s ballot measures, we have posted recommendations from Sam Paredes, GOC’s Executive Director.
PROPOSITION 1
AUTHORIZES $6.38 BILLION IN BONDS TO BUILD MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FACILITIES FOR THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE CHALLENGES; PROVIDES HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS.
Fiscal Impact: Shift roughly $140 million annually of existing tax revenue for mental health, drug, and alcohol treatment from counties to the state. Increased state bond repayment costs of $310 million annually for 30 years.
VOTE YES if you believe that counties should shift their mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment services TO THE STATE. This allows the state to borrow up to $6.4 billion to build (1) more places where people could get mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment and (2) more housing for people with mental health, drug, or alcohol challenges.
VOTE NO if you do NOT think that counties should change the mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment services they currently provide.
Sam says: Given that Proposition 1 is sponsored by Governor Newsom’s Ballot Measure Committee TreatmentNotTents.com, this signals an easy NO for me. At a cost of more than $10 billion, it is enormously expensive and doesn’t provide any sort of remedy for California’s burgeoning homeless problem. This is not a time to wrack up more debt, mental health advocates and taxpayer groups oppose it and Newsom has zero credibility in fixing the problem. His only solution is to throw money at it.