Midterm Edition: Propositions

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🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Regardless of how you choose to vote on Prop 1, you'll finish this episode knowing all about ballot measures. These are bills and amendments initiated by the people, and voted into law by the people. What could possibly go wrong when we sidestep our famously pedantic legislature?? Today's episode features our eminently quotable teacher and former California Assemblymember Cheryl Cook-Kallio, political correspondent at KQED Guy Marzorati, and frequent initiative proposer Tim Eyman. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're from the great state of Idaho, you might have heard this.
0:04.3	It's not just saving our tradition of horse racing.
0:07.5	Proposition 1 is about Idaho, job creation, classroom funding, real accountability, and
0:13.1	the Idaho Instance Ring Prop 1 are donating 100% of net profits from their horse racing
0:18.3	operations to a new charitable foundation.
0:21.0	I work with and own horses all my life.
0:24.1	Supporters of Prop 1 are running deceptive ads.
0:27.2	Prop 1 is an unlimited expansion of gambling statewide.
0:30.8	I know the people behind Prop 1 and they've made a lot of promises to schools and the racing
0:36.0	community, but they take 18 times more money than schools get.
0:41.1	Right Hannah?
0:42.5	Yes.
0:43.5	Pop quiz hot shot.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:45.5	Yes or no on Prop 1.
0:50.2	I don't know what Prop 1 is, and I need more information if I'm going to say it's no.
0:55.8	Who benefits and Prop 1?
0:58.8	Schools.
0:59.8	Right.
1:00.8	Schools get money.
1:04.4	For H, I cannot explain to you what Prop 1 is.
1:09.8	I'm Nick Kepady-J.
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