Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot

Companion to Scott's California ballot post (ACX-367, 57). Practical, entertaining, local: the vaping-focused Prop 31 debate (flavored-tobacco ban mostly hits vaping), the genuinely illuminating SEIU-UHW dialysis-proposition scandal (a union weaponizing ballot props to bleed dialysis companies into unionizing, at real patient risk), the Newsom-has-no-candidate-statement spending-limit quirk, Scott's Oakland local-ballot walkthrough (ranked-choice mayor, the DA experience-vs-outsider debate, kabbalistic/Discordian tiebreakers, the ziggurat-prophet antisemitic candidate), and other comments (Prop 1 and genetic engineering, YIMBY-Bonta, Malia Cohen genealogy). Fun but slight and topical.

Quality 59 · Solid. Solid (59). Useful, well-curated local-ballot practicalities with a couple of substantive bits (the SEIU dialysis-scandal explanation), but mostly topical voting guidance with entertaining asides; little standalone insight.

Claude’s paradigm shift 34 · Slight. Slight-Moderate (34). A one-off local-election companion; no novelty.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 — a companion commentary; the ballot guidance may have nudged a few local votes but no measurable durable effect.