{"id":387,"date":"2005-10-28T21:48:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T03:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2005-10-28T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T03:55:37","slug":"constitutional-amendments-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2005\/10\/constitutional-amendments-on-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shari asked me if I would blog about the propositions coming up for a vote on November 8.  I am flattered that she would ask me to do so, and am happy to oblige. I will try to do so by putting the ballot language, a link to the full legislation, and my gut reaction above the fold, with the various arguments pro &#38; con from the guides I list here and my take on it below.<\/p>\n<p>First, though, here are some links to start us off:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/2005novconsamend.shtml\">List of the proposed constitutional amendments<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/\">Secretary of State&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvhouston.org\/VotersGuideNov0005\/HarrisEnglish.pdf\">Voters Guide for Harris County<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvhouston.org\/\">League of Women Voters<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlc.state.tx.us\/pubsconamend\/analyses05\/analyses05.pdf\" title=\"Analyses of proposed constitutional amendments by the Texas Legislative Council \">Analyses of proposed constitutional amendments<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlc.state.tx.us\/\">Texas Legislative Council<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/hrofr\/focus\/amend79.pdf\">Focus Report<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"> by the <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/hrofr\/\">House Research Organization<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"> (PDF)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shari asked me if I would blog about the propositions coming up for a vote on November 8. I am flattered that she would ask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-6f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}