If you don't live in California, this is not going to be interesting (though living here is no guarantee of interest either).
California has periodic elections like every other state, but next week we've got an off-cycle special election strictly for eight ballot initiatives. Half of them are being pushed heavily by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and most of them are generating lots of heat, but this is the first election I can remember which has no bond measures.
Anyway, for many years, I've written an analysis of the ballot propositions and emailed them to my friends: I can always tell when an election nears because I get "Hey, where's your writeup?" emails. I'm running late this cycle — it's been busy — but have finally finished:
Steve California Ballot Analysis - November 8 2005
I'm much more interested in educating than convincing, and in a few cases am actually open to being convinced myself (I changed my mind on one of them during the process of writing due to thoughtful input from others).
