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Early attempts at weather modification in the U.S. included the first experimental cloud seeding of a hurricane event in 1947 and the cloud seeding of Hurricane Debbie in 1969.
Source: The Louisiana State Center
California Proposition 76 - Election 2005
California PoliticsProp 76 would end the guarantees of minimum school funding for K-14 provided by Prop 98, and allow the Governor to declare a state of financial emergency. That declaration would allow him to amend the state budget as he saw fit It would limit state spending increases to a set percentage, and would authorize a massive reallocation of funding for education that is now guaranteed whenever the General Fund is in surplus.
Support For Proposition 76
Governor Swarzeneger supports Proposition 76. Help the governor take control of the massive California overspending in the government.Supporters include:
- Schwarzenegger's California Recovery Team
- includes Albertsons, Blue Cross of California, Cingular Wireless, Citigroup, Dreyers Grand Ice Cream, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Outback Steakhouse, Sears , Roebuck & Company, Sun Microsystems, Toyota Motor Sales, Verizon, Walgreens, and Williams Sonoma) plus contributors like Apple Computer, [ChevronTexaco]Create?, Citigroup, California Chamber of Commerce, Cendant Corporation, [CH2MHill]Create?, Deloitte & Touche, Longs Drugs, Safeway, [WalMart]Create? Stores, etc.
Opposition for Proposition 76
The proprosition is opposed by an alliance of unions of educators, firefighters, school employees, health care givers and labor organizations. They have gathered about $20 million so far from their constituents. These liberals think that California corporations should be required to pay even higher taxes. They don't understand that would cause more corporations to leave California, or to just raise prices to cover increased costs of doing business in California. The bigger government professive organizations like unions are oblivious to the current exodus of businesses and individuals.Opposition includes:
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)
- California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA)
- California Faculty Association (CFA)
- California Federation of Teachers (CFT)
- California Labor Federation
- California Professional Firefighters (CPF)
- California School Employees Association (CSEA)
- California Teachers Association (CTA)
- Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- SEIU Local 1000
- Minorities in Law Enforcement
Early attempts at weather modification in the U.S. included the first experimental cloud seeding of a hurricane event in 1947 and the cloud seeding of Hurricane Debbie in 1969.
Source: Louisiana State Center
