Support Proposition 89
By Suzette Welch, Letter to the Editor
Proposition 89 will enable candidates for state office to
choose to receive public funding for their campaigns and
restrict contributions for state ballot measures. The fund
money will come from a 0.2 percent increase in the
corporation tax rate. This increase would restore the
corporate tax rate to the 1996 level.
The funding from 89 would enable more candidates to get
involved in the political process and give voters more
choices. It will take the corporation and special-interest
money out of the political process.
You might think that decreasing the power and influence of
large corporations in the political process sounds good but
will never happen. It can happen and is now in place and
working in Arizona and Maine.
The California Nurses Association has sponsored this
measure because taking the special-interest money out of
politics will make it possible to fix our broken health
care system, clean up our environment and create a
government that works for all of us, not just the wealthy
few.
Join the nurses on Nov. 7 and vote yes on Prop. 89.
-- Suzette Welch,
Chico
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