Cleary Comments, Williams Institute Estimates
Passage of Proposition 8 Will Cost California More
Than $800 Million in the Next 3 Years News Blaze
June 24,2009
Due to Losses of Revenue For Weddings and Various
Auxiliary Services
California resident and gay rights advocate,
Jerome Cleary believes that the 52.3 percent
ofCalifornia voters who voted 'yes' on Prop. 8
should take notice of the full impact of their
votes. "The residents of California need to be
reminded that these 52.3 percent of voters destroyed
not only Gay Marriages, they have nearly bankrupted
our state," remarks, Cleary.
The Los Angeles Times reported: "The Los Angeles
Board of Education on Tuesday, June 23, 2009-they
approved nearly $1.6 billion in cuts over the next
three years that will result in layoffs and
increased class sizes and could one day mean the
elimination of such key programs as all-day
kindergarten and summer school. The action also
makes it increasingly likely that many of those
targeted for layoffs, including about 2,200 teachers
and up to 2,000 school staff, such as custodians and
cafeteria workers, will be dismissed..."
Here's a look at who voted for Prof. 8:
BallotPedia.org reported: The Public Policy
Institute ofCalifornia released a poll in December
2008 to shed some light on who voted for Prop. 8,
especially in light of widespread claims that
relatively heavy support among black voters is what
pushed Prop. 8 to victory. 2,003 voters were polled
from November 5-16.
YES votes: 6,838,107 NO votes: 6,246,463
Percentiles: YES 52.3 percent NO 47.7 percent
Total Votes: 13,084,570 Voter Turnout: 79.42
percent
Campaigns for and against Proposition 8 raised
$39.9 million and $43.3 million, respectively,
becoming the highest-funded campaign on any state
ballot that day and surpassing every campaign in the
country in spending except the presidential contest.
-- On a stand-alone question, 47% were in favor
of same-sex marriage, 48% were opposed and 5% were
unsure. -- 85% of voters identifying themselves as
evangelical or born-again Christians voted yes. --
Of non-evangelical Christians polled, 42% voted yes.
-- 77% of Republicans in the poll voted yes. -- 65%
of Democrats voted no. -- 85% of John McCain
supporters voted yes. -- 30% of Barack Obama voters
voted yes. -- 61% of Latinos voted yes. -- 57% of
Latinos, Asians, and blacks combined voted yes. --
62% of those without a college degree voted yes.
-- 74% of those who voted yes on Prop. 8
considered the outcome of the vote to be "very
important," while 59% of those who voted no attached
the same level of importance to the outcome.
Some of the donors supporting Prop. 8 were:
-- Knights of Columbus, $1,400,000 -- Howard
Ahmanson, $1,150,000 -- John Templeton, $900,000 --
National Organization for Marriage, $785,750
-- Elsa Prince, $650,000
-- Fieldstead & Company, $600,000. -- American
Family Association, $500,000 -- Focus on the Family,
$411,000.
-- Doug Manchester, $125,000
"While Californians are outraged at the current
local, county and state budget deficits, they need
to acknowledge it was their neighbors who directly
caused all of this and not some unknown entity,
says, Cleary.
