2024 ENDORSEMENTS
GENERAL ELECTION on November 5, 2024
(Ballots will be mailed out to all voters' homes on October 7, 2024)
CLUB ENDORSEMENTS - Local Races:
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1) Ventura City Council, District #2 - Doug Halter
2) Ventura City Council, District #3 - Ryyn Schumacher
3) Ventura City Council, District #7 - Alex Mangone
4) Ventura Unified School District, Area #2 - Sabrena Rodriguez
5) Ventura Unified School District, Area #3 - Shannon Fredericks
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CLUB ENDORSEMENTS - Ballot Measures:
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Measure P - SUPPORT - Modernize and state law alignment charter amendments. Click here for details.
Measure Q - SUPPORT - Filling Vacancies and Council Compensation. Click here for details. Click here for details.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY ENDORSEMENTS - State & US Races:
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1) US Senate - Adam Schiff
2) US Congress - Salud Carbajal
3) CA State Senate - Monique Limon
4) CA State Assembly - Steve Bennett
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY POSITIONS - Statewide Ballot Measures:
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Proposition 2: SUPPORT - $10 Billion Education Bond - Establishes the Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and Local Community College Public Education Facilities Modernization, Repair, and Safety Bond Act of 2024 and makes changes to the existing School Facility Program (SFP). - Click here for details.
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Proposition 3: SUPPORT - Marriage Equality - Repeals California's Constitution that currently states marriage is between a man and a women, and replaces it with: "The right to marry is a fundamental right." (ACA 5) - Click here for details.
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Proposition 4: SUPPORT - $10 Billion Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 - Click here for details.
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Proposition 5: SUPPORT - Affordable Housing and Public Infrastructure - Amends California's Constitution to require a 55% voter approval instead of the current super majority for local special taxes to fund housing and public infrastructure (ACA 1) - Click here for details.
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Proposition 6: SUPPORT - Slavery Prohibition - Prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment. It also clarifies that it does not prohibit the DCR from awarding credits to an incarcerated person who voluntarily accepts a work assignment. - Click here for details.
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Proposition 32: SUPPORT - Raises Minimum Wage - Existing law requires annual increases to California’s minimum wage until it has reached $15.00 per hour for all businesses on January 1, 2023. This measure extends these annual increases ($1.00 per year) until minimum wage—currently, $15.00 per hour for businesses with 26 or more employees, and $14.00 per hour for smaller businesses—reaches $18.00 per hour. Thereafter, as existing law requires, the minimum wage will annually adjust for inflation. In periods of decreased economic activity, or General Fund deficit, the Governor may suspend annual increase up to two times, thereby extending timeline for reaching $18.00 per hour (21-0043A1). Click here for details.
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Proposition 33: SUPPORT - Expands Local Governments' Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property - Current state law (the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995) generally prevents cities and counties from limiting the initial rental rate that landlords may charge to new tenants in all types of housing, and from limiting rent increases for existing tenants in (1) residential properties that were first occupied after February 1, 1995; (2) single-family homes; and (3) condominiums. This measure would repeal that state law and would prohibit the state from limiting the right of cities and counties to maintain, enact, or expand residential rent-control ordinances (22-0008). Click here for details.
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Proposition 34: NO POSITION - Restricts Spending by Health Care Providers Meeting Specified Criteria - Requires certain health care providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. Applies only to health care providers that: spent over $100,000,000 in any ten-year period on anything other than direct patient care; and operated multifamily housing with over 500 high-severity health and safety violations. Penalizes noncompliance by revoking health care licenses and tax-exempt status. Permanently authorizes state to negotiate Medi-Cal drug prices on statewide basis (23-0021A1). Click here for details.
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Proposition 35: SUPPORT - Provides Permanent Funding for Medi-Cal Health Care Services - Makes permanent the existing tax on managed health care insurance plans, currently set to expire in 2026, which the state uses to pay for health care services for low-income families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and other groups covered by the Medi-Cal program. Requires revenues to be used only for specified Medi-Cal services, including primary and specialty care, emergency care, family planning, mental health, and prescription drugs. Prohibits revenues from being used to replace other existing Medi-Cal funding. Caps administrative expenses and requires independent audits of programs receiving funding (23-0024A1). Click here for details.
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Proposition 36: OPPOSE - Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes:
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Allows felony charges for possessing certain drugs, including fentanyl, and for thefts under $950—both currently chargeable only as misdemeanors—with two prior drug or two prior theft convictions, as applicable. Defendants who plead guilty to felony drug possession and complete treatment can have charges dismissed.
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Increases sentences for other specified drug and theft crimes.
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Increased prison sentences may reduce savings that currently fund mental health and drug treatment programs, K-12 schools, and crime victims; any remaining savings may be used for new felony treatment program. Click here for details.
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​​QUESTIONS?
Contact Ventura Club's Endorsement Committee Chair Matt Bello at DCVEndorsementCommittee@gmail.com.