PROP 50 – Tne test of a winning campaign in the Golden State is who feels inspired to hold a bake sale. By that standard, the push to pass Prop 50 is capturing the hearts and minds of many Angelenos in the week before ballots arrive.
This Sunday morning, Sept. 28, residents in and around Atwater Village in Northeast L.A. will be lining up on Glendale Blvd. to pick up homemade goodies at a stand set up by a team of grassroots bakers and volunteers. The treats are technically free. But recipients can chip in voluntary donations that will support local Yes on 50 efforts. Thus the reliance on a familiar title: bake sale.
The statewide ballot measure aims to allow Californians to elect more Members of Congress who promise to do their duty under the Constitution to hold the President accountable. The openly authoritarian Donald Trump is targeting and terrorizing immigrants, including U.S. citizens, and threatening television networks in order to silence comedians who mock him.
For a huge majority of Californians, real guardrails on a lawless and unpopular President, who violates the Constitution without curbs or consequences from a spineless, right-wing majority on the Supreme Court, have never felt more needful…