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    Elections Citywide Ballot Wrap-Up: City Council Incumbents, Measures L and M WinVoters support two of three measures to help ease the city's budget crisis and send incumbents back to City Hall.
    By Paul Chavez
    On Tuesday's citywide ballot Los Angeles voters approved all but one of nine measures, backed incumbent City Council members and an outgoing incumbent's anointed successor, and chose new and incumbent LAUSD and community college board candidates.
    In addition to giving overwhelming approval to Measure L, which would increase the amount of funding set aside for public libraries, voters also backed attempts to reform the city's expensive pension system and tax marijuana sales. The measures reflected the city's attempts to trim its $400 million budget deficit via the ballot box.
    The library measure had the support of 64 percent of voters with nearly all precincts counted.
    Voters also endorsed Measure M, a new levy of $50 per $1,000 of pot sold by medial marijuana collectives, despite the city attorney saying that the measure "would be of little or no effect" since in his opinion marijuana is illegal and nonprofit organizations—which include medicinal marijuana dispensaries—are exempt from business taxes.
    Measure G, a charter amendment that would scale back pension benefits for future fire and police department hires, was endorsed by 74 percent of voters.
    Voters also endorsed Measure P, which would require the city to put 2.75 percent of its general fund revenue into an emergency reserve account within the reserve fund. Sixty-six percent of voters backed the measure.
    Measure O, which would place a $1.44 per barrel tax on oil extracted within city limits, was trailing with 51 percent voting against it.
    In one of the more hotly contested races, incumbent City Councilman Jose Huizar beat back businessman Rudy Martinez in the contest for City Council District 14 seat. The City Council district includes Eagle Rock and Echo Park.
    Huizar took an early lead in the absentee votes and finished with nearly 65 percent of the vote with nearly all ballots counted.
    Huizar declared victory early Tuesday night and was joined by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a celebration where shouts of "Si Se Puede" filled the room.
    Martinez was joined by about 50 supporters at Marty's, his restaurant and bar on York Boulevard in Highland Park, and made a concession speech flanked by his 6-year-old daughter, Mia, and 9-year-old son, Marty.
    "The numbers aren't quite looking what we wanted them to be, but my God, what an experience it has been," Martinez said. "I love you all and I promise you, I'll be back to change this city. I never give up."
    Huizar was joined by other City Council incumbents who easily won, including Tom LaBonge in Council District 4 that includes Hollywood. Other City Council incumbents who cruised to victory included Krekorian, here in District 2, Tony Cardenas in District 6 and Herb J. Wesson Jr. in District 10.
    “The city's unprecedented budget crisis will force its government and its people to make very difficult choices in the months ahead," Krekorian said during his acceptance speech. "Above all else, though, our most important and perhaps most difficult mission is to solve the crisis of confidence in our city government.”
    Former Los Angeles Police Department chief and current City Councilman Bernard C. Parks was locked in a tight race to avoid a run-off with challenger Forescee Hogan-Rowles in District 8. Parks had 51 percent of the vote with nearly all votes counted in the district.
    In Council District 12, retiring City Coucilman Greig Smith will be replaced by his top deputy, Mitchell Englander, who was set to win with 57 percent of the vote.
    Other citywide ballot measures that were approved by voters included measures I and J that would provide more oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power by creating a ratepayer advocate to examine proposed rate hikes and by requiring the utility to provide a preliminary budget to the City Council. Measure I was leading with 78 percent of voters endorsing it and Measure J had 82 percent support.
    Measure H, which would ban contractors who bid on large contracts from contributing to city political campaigns, was supported by 75 percent of voters. Measure N, which would amend the City Charter to make it comply with the Supreme Court's lifting of campaign contributions limits, was backed by 70 percent of voters.
    Measure Q, would allow the city to stop testing every qualified job applicant for some civil service jobs, was endorsed by 62 percent of voters.
    Candidates in the City Council and school board races surpassed $7.5 million in spending in the waning days of the election, with about $1.5 million being spent in the campaign's final weeks.
    In the four races for Los Angeles Unified School District board, three of the four incumbents were headed to easy victories. In District 1, Marguerites Poindexter Lamotte had 75 percent of the vote. In District 3, Galatzan had 63 percent and in District 7, Richard A. Vladovic had 63 percent.
    In District 5, the race to replace Yolie Flores, who is leaving after one term, appeared to be headed for a run-off election. Luis Sanchez, an aide to board President Monica Garcia, had 45 percent of the vote, while Bennett Kayser had 39 percent and John Fernandez 16 percent. A run-off is necessary between the top two vote-getters if no one gains more than 50 percent of the vote.
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    It's a start.
    It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.

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    YEAH BABY!


    once any real money flows to government coffers this will be repeted over and over again in the country.


    One more baby step.

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    Yup, thanks to Oakland for doing it last year.
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    Oh yeah I forgot.

    Is money flowing to oaksterdam coffers now?

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    One guy in Oakland pays over a million a year and about $400,000 to the feds too.
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    think of how much this could produce nation wide

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    Boo.

    I do not support taxing one item over another. The idea behind such taxes is to discourage use, which the government has no business doing.
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    hahahahahahah

    It wont discourage use.


    It will help the people give meaning to their lives.

    Pot makes you think.

    It helps your mind wander into areas you are reluctant to see.


    Alcohol helps you block out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    YEAH BABY!


    once any real money flows to government coffers this will be repeted over and over again in the country.


    One more baby step.
    exactly

    Once the idiots in power see the cash flow results... they will rush to legalize it so that they can tax it.

    when they see the additional savings created by not spending time and resources busting people for lighting up.... the snowball will pick up speed.
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    It will be a great improvement for this country.

    Millions will try pot because it is now legal.

    Their minds will open.

    Its likely why it has been illegal all these years.

    Someone doiesnt like the american people thinking.

    they want them to block out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Alcohol helps you block out.
    No. Alcohol is the most wonderful chemical in all of existence. It expands the mind like nothing else can. Most, however, are still to primitive to comprehend the blessing that it is.

    But regardless, I'd love to see alcohol taxed at a regular level. I don't see why a different tax, in addition to sales tax, should be levied. Oh yeah, because the government knows it can get away with it, so they say a nice little fuck you to those who drink. Or smoke. And now they're saying fuck you to marijuana users. I say it's high time we end that bullshit.
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    There are reasons to tax such things.

    Its called putting the real costs of a product into the equation.

    You see a strickly profit based production of things like alcohol doesnt factor in the costs to society.

    The producer of alcohol does not facter in the cost of the products costs to society with illness and crime.

    If alcohol had to figure into its product cost the price of healthcare associated with its use then it would cost much more.

    We then tax it so the individuals buying it pay those costs.


    Its what smart societies do.

    I would be willing to shift those cost right back to the producer but I doubt you would.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Pot makes you think.
    :lol:

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    If pot doesnt make you think maybe its because you dont have much capacity

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