George Skelton: Yes to abortion rights and arts education: How I'm voting on California ballot propositions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here is a final unvarnished, admittedly biased summary of the seven propositions on the state ballot.
Three measures — about sports betting and taxing the rich — are prime examples of special interests capitalizing on California's century-old system of direct democracy. Two others — concerning dialysis treatment and tobacco products — amount to blatant abuses of the treasured system.
This is how I view the ballot measures:
Proposition 1: It would cement current state abortion rights into the California Constitution.
Democratic sponsors contend that's needed to protect these rights from a future conservative governor or Legislature, although such a scenario is practically impossible to envision in this
