GREATER LOS ANGELES A PROJECT OF CAPITOL RESOURCE INSTITUTE WWW.CAPITOLRESOURCE.ORG Dear Friends, In this unprecedented time, Californians have gone into hiding due to the novel coronavirus. California’s politicians are no different. Despite contacting every candidate multiple times, many have ignored or refused to answer our questions for the Faith, Family, and Freedom Voter Guide. In the future, we hope that many more candidates will be eager to share their stances with voters. At Capitol Resource Institute, we have made it our goal to advocate and defend a culture of family values in California. For years we have researched legislation and spoken to legislators on behalf of all of our supporters regarding issues that matter to them. We hope to accomplish the same goal through the Faith, Family, and Freedom Voter Guide. There are many who are calling the 2020 election the most important election to date, but we at Capitol Resource Institute understand that every election holds equal importance. The right to vote is an important cornerstone to our republic. Active participation is required to maintain and keep a healthy republic. Our hope for the Faith, Family, and Freedom Voter Guide was to create a nonpartisan document that educated the voter on where candidates stand on issues that matter to YOU. We surveyed every candidate for the California State Senate, Assembly, and U.S. House of Representatives to bring you the most accurate portrayal of where they stand. We have also provided additional information regarding the propositions you will see on your ballot. Elections hold an important place in our republic because it is an opportunity for the citizens to determine the path they want their state or nation to embark upon. You have the opportunity to be an agent of change in your communities. Thank you for your support throughout the years. At Capitol Resource Institute, we hope Californians concerned for family values, religious liberty, and freedom will continue to make their voice heard for years to come. Whether you are submitting an absentee ballot or are heading to the polls on November 3rd, make sure your voice is heard. Sincerely, Karen England Executive Director Capitol Resource Institute 2020 Proposition Guide 02 Californians voting their values is more critical now than ever before. Casting your vote for President, Congress, and your state and local representatives is the best way to make your voice heard. This year, your vote on the ballot initiatives is also critical. There are 12 total propositions on the ballot carefully and completely explained for you here. Proposition 14 – Bonds Continuing Stem Cell Research above mentioned. It would open the door for politicians and Decision: OPPOSE those in positions of power to play favorites, rather than make decisions by merit and experience. Authorizes $5.5 billion state bonds for: stem cell and other medical research, including training; research facility Proposition 17 – Restores Right to Vote After Completion construction; administrative costs. Dedicates $1.5 billion of Prison Term to brain-related diseases. Prop 14 would allocate a total Decision: OPPOSE $7.8 billion that the state cannot afford due to the current economic environment. This proposition also would be Restores voting rights upon completion of prison term to funding a state agency that already received $3 billion back persons who have been disqualified from voting while serving in 2004 for stem cell research, and there has been little to no a prison term. Prop 17 amends California’s Constitution to actual results from the agency. Moreover, stem cell research is grant violent criminals the right to vote before completing their now being fully funded by the federal government and private sentence including parole. It would allow criminals convicted of enterprises. heinous crimes like murder, rape and child molestation to vote before paying their debt to society and denies justice to the Proposition 15 – Changing Tax Assessment of Commercial victims of their crimes. and Industrial Property Decision: OPPOSE Proposition 18 - Permit 17-Year-Olds to Vote in Primary and Special Elections Taxes such properties based on current market value, instead Decision: OPPOSE of purchase price, and increases property taxes on commercial Amends California Constitution to permit 17-Year-Olds to properties worth more than $3 million providing $6.5 billion vote in Primary and Special Elections if they will turn 18 by the to $11.5 billion in new funding to local governments and next General Election and be otherwise eligible to vote. Prop schools. Prop 15 is a ‘split roll’ initiative aimed at dismantling 18 would allow high school students to vote on measures like the protections offered to homeowners and business owners tax increases, without knowing the full impact of their vote in in Prop 13. It is a $12.5 billion property tax increase that raises the long run. This is unwise. The Law prohibits younger teens our cost of living and makes everything we buy – food, gas, from smoking, drinking and even tanning because research utilities, day care and health care – more expensive. shows the logic and reasoning area of their brains is not fully developed. Those abilities are vital to responsible voting. Proposition 16 – Diversity as a Factor in Public Employment, Education, and Contracting Decisions Proposition 19 – Changes Certain Property Tax Rules Decision: OPPOSE Decision: OPPOSE Allows homeowners who are over 55, disabled, or wildfire/ Permits government decision-making policies to consider disaster victims to transfer primary residence’s tax base to race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in order to address replacement residence, changes taxation of family-property diversity by repealing constitutional provision prohibiting transfers, and establishes a fire protection services fund. such policies. Prop 16 would repeal the Affirmative Action Prop 19 makes property tax protections more portable Amendment (Prop 209), which outlawed discrimination on the but less heritable: will lower your taxes if you move, but 2020 Proposition Guide 03 potentially raise them for your kids when they inherit your Proposition 23 – On-Site Medical Professional Required by home, effectively eliminating Proposition 58. Prop 19 also State for Kidney Dialysis Clinics eliminates a similar measure, Proposition 193, which gives Decision: OPPOSE the same protection to transfers between grandparents and Requires physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant grandchildren if the children’s parents are deceased. on site during dialysis treatment. Prohibits clinics from reducing services without state approval and from refusing to Proposition 20 – Restricts Parole for Certain Offenses treat patients based on payment source. As it already stands, Currently Considered to be Non-Violent approximately 80,000 Californians with kidney failure rely on Decision: SUPPORT dialysis to stay alive. Prop 23 would put dialysis patients’ lives Limits access to parole program established for non-violent at risk and hurt all Californians by making us wait longer to see offenders who have completed the full term of their primary our doctors and increasing health care costs by hundreds of offense by eliminating eligibility for certain offenses. Prop 20 millions annually, as well as force many community clinics to puts restrictions on the ability to apply for parole for specific shut down due to high costs. non-violent crimes. It partially reverses Proposition 47, which empowered calculator-wielding thieves to repeatedly steal Proposition 24 – Amends Consumer Privacy Laws up to $950 of merchandise. Prop 20 would also reverse part Decision: OPPOSE of Proposition 57, which prematurely released ‘non-violent’ Permits consumers to prevent businesses from sharing criminals, including but not limited to domestic abusers, sex personal information, correct inaccurate personal information, traffickers, and arsonists. and limit businesses’ use of “sensitive personal information,” including precise geolocation, race, ethnicity, and health Proposition 21 – Expands Local Governments’ Authority to information. Prop 24 reduces your privacy rights in California, Enact Rent Control on Residential Property as it allows “pay for privacy” schemes, makes workers wait Decision: OPPOSE years to learn what confidential information employers collect Allows local governments to establish rent control on on them, and makes it harder to stop tech giants from selling residential properties over 15 years old. Local limits on your information similar to the privacy law passed in the rate increases may differ from statewide limit. Prop 21 will European Union in May of 2018. make California’s housing crisis worse, as it undermines the strongest statewide rent control law in the nation, costs jobs, Proposition 25 –Money Bail Replacement with Public reduces home values, stops new housing from being built, Safety and Flight Risk System Referendum and eliminates homeowner protections while providing no Decision: OPPOSE protections for renters, seniors, veterans or the disabled. Voting referendum on a law replacing money bail with system based on public safety and flight risk. Prop 25 replaces cash Proposition 22 – Self-Employment for Ride-Hail and Other bail with a ‘risk assessment’ algorithm for pre-trial release. App-Drivers In the best hands, this is not ready for prime time; in the Decision: SUPPORT technologically challenged hands of California government, it Classifies app-based drivers