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By ONME News
County election offices throughout California have sent out ballots to registered voters for the upcoming November 5, 2024 election. Locally, the local black media and local Black organizations have been collaborating to inform the community through the 2024 Central Valley Community Elections Forums. Tonight's forum, October 16 starts at 5:30 PM. By ONME News partnering with local Black media, KOFP Radio 103.3 FM, and community partners, Black Women Organized for Political Action, Fresno/SJV Chapter (BWOPA); Black American Political Association of California, Fresno Chapter, (BAPAC); the NAACP #1038, Fresno Chapter and the African American Clergy Caucus, local candidates benefit due to a better representation of the Black community that is now spread throughout Fresno County. The non-partisan forums enable local and regional San Joaquin Valley candidates to address their hyper-local constituents who may be considered a hard-to-reach audience and/or an extremely niche audience.
Each forum will be rebroadcast on TV, on radio, and online, (see schedule below.) People can call in or text their question for a candidate to: 559-242-6788.
Meanwhile, the state of California has 10 measures on the ballot for review by voters for the November 5, 2024 election. The 2024 ballot is still more crowded than in 2022, when there were only seven measures, the fewest in more than a century. Tonight, Fresno State political science professor, Dr. Thomas Holyoke, will assist in explaining some of the key state propositions and local ballot measures. A specialist in American politics, Dr. Thomas Holyoke teaches courses and conducts research on Congress, interest groups and social movements, and western water politics. He has published over forty research articles in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, and the American Journal of Education. His first book, Competitive Interests , was published in the fall of 2011 by Georgetown University Press. To learn more about the book, listen to this podcast of an interview with Dr. Holyoke for New Books in Political Science. His second book Interest Groups and Lobbying was published in 2014 by Westview Press (the second edition was just published by Routledge). He is also the author of the new book The Ethical Lobbyist published by Georgetown University Press.
Dr. Holyoke has also worked for several interest groups in the past, as well as the United States Senate and the New York State Senate. In 2008 he received the Provost's Promising New Faculty Award and in 2021 received the Provost's University Service Award.
Below is a review of those measures along with a video provide by media partner, CalMatters.
PROP 2: Borrow $10 billion to build schools, colleges
This bond issue would authorize the state to borrow $8.5 billion for K-12 schools and $1.5 billion for community colleges for construction and modernization.
PROP 3: Reaffirm the right of same-sex couples to marry
This constitutional amendment would remove outdated language from Proposition 8 (considered a zombie law), passed by voters in 2008, that characterizes marriage as only between a man and a woman.
PROP 4: Borrow $10 billion to respond to climate change
This bond issue would allow the state to borrow $3.8 billion for drinking water and groundwater programs, $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest programs and $1.2 billion for sea level rise. In part, the money would offset some budget cuts. ($400 million per year for 40 years, 2022 climate commitment had to be scaled back because of the California deficit and budget cuts.)
PROP 5: Lower voter approval requirements for local housing and infrastructure
This constitutional amendment would make it easier for local governments to borrow money for affordable housing and some other public infrastructure projects by lowering the voter approval requirement from two-thirds to 55%.
PROP 6: Limit forced labor in state prisons
This constitutional amendment would end indentured servitude in state prisons, considered one of the last remnants of slavery. The California Black Legislative Caucus included the proposal in its reparations agenda.
PROP 32: Raise the state minimum wage to $18
This initiative would raise the overall minimum wage from $16 an hour and adjust it for inflation, fast food workers received a $20 an hour minimum on April 1 and health care workers will eventually get $25, though not until at least Oct. 15.
PROP 33: Allow local governments to impose rent controls
This is the latest attempt to roll back a state law that generally prevents cities and counties from limiting rents in properties first occupied after Feb. 1, 1995.
PROP 34: Require certain providers to use prescription drug revenue for patients
Sponsored by the trade group for California’s landlords, this measure is squarely aimed at knee-capping the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been active in funding ballot measures (see Prop. 33).
PROP 35: Make permanent a tax on managed health care plans
This initiative is sponsored by California’s health care industry to raise more money for Medi-Cal and block lawmakers from using the cash to avoid cuts to other programs. The tax is set to expire in 2026.
PROP 36: Increase penalties for theft and drug trafficking
This measure — supported by Republicans and law enforcement but opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and most Democrats — may be the most contentious on the ballot. It would partly roll back Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014, that turned some felonies into misdemeanors.
Also, Yolanda Joy Moore Clovis Unified School District, Area 7 Trustee will explain further about the Clovis Unified School District Bond Measure A.
Originally from the Central Valley, a Hoover High School graduate, Yolanda Joy Moore attended CSU, Sacramento, earning a degree in biology. She also attended Marquette University for graduate school, earning a Master’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies. After spending much of her adult life in Northern California, she returned to the Central Valley six years ago. As a Clovis resident with her husband and three children, our 3 children (now ages 19, 11 and 8) her oldest is a recent Clovis High grad and the two younger children are currently in middle and elementary school.
She is also a small business owner and works full time as an Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant, previously in the ER at Valley Children’s Hospital but currently in the ER at Community Regional Medical Center.
Here are different ways to watch or listen live:
Watch it live October 9 & 16 via ONME TV:
Listen live October 9 & 16 via KOFP Radio:
KOFP Radio “The Voice” 103.3 FM
Rebroadcast online via ONME TV starting October 11th:
www.onmenews.com 7a & 7p daily thru Nov. 5
Rebroadcast on KOFP Radio online starting Oct. 12th:
KOFP Radio “The Voice” 12p and 9p daily thru Nov. 5th
ONME Network Central Valley TV Post Broadcast dates: Oct. 11th - Nov. 5th
Comcast Xfinity — Channel 93 [CMAC - Fresno, CA] M, T, & Fri. 5p-8p; Wed. & Thurs. 9a-12p
AT&T U-Verse — Channel 99 [CMAC - Fresno, CA] M, T, & Fri. 5p-8p; Wed. & Thurs. 9a-12p
MyTV26— [Central Valley Media Center Modesto, CA] Varies
OTT Channels Rebroadcasts Oct. 11 –Nov. 5
Black Headline News FAST channels: Thurs & Fri. 7a-10a and 7p-10p
CMAC Roku M, T, & Fri. 5p-8p; Wed. & Thurs. 9a-12p
CMAC Apple TV M, T, & Fri. 5p-8p; Wed. & Thurs. 9a-12p
CMAC Amazon Fire TV M, T, & Fri. 5p-8p; Wed. & Thurs. 9a-12p
Online on-demand starting Oct. 12th
ONME TV (video)
ONME Podcast Network (audio)
CMAC Roku
CMAC Apple TV
CMAC Amazon Fire TV
Third-Party Audio Podcast Oct. 11 –Nov. 5
Here is some more general election information:
All registered voters can vote in the General Election
To register to vote in California, you must be:
A United States citizen and a resident of California,
18 years old or older on Election Day,
Not currently serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony (for more information on the rights of people who have been incarcerated, please see the Secretary of State's Voting Rights Restored: Persons with a Prior Felony Conviction), and
Not currently found mentally incompetent to vote by a court (for more information, please see Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship).
2024 California General Election Info.
The last day to register to vote for the November 5, 2024, General Election is October 21, 2024.
All California active registered voters will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for the November 5, 2024, General Election.
Your county elections office will begin mailing ballots by October 7, 2024.
Ballot drop-off locations open on October 8, 2024.
Vote-by-mail ballots can be returned by mail, at a drop-off location, or your county elections office.
Vote centers open for early in-person voting in all Voter’s Choice Act counties beginning on October 26, 2024.
Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by November 12, 2024.
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