As of the morning of March 16, Prop 1 leads by fewer than 20,000 votes statewide, with about 287,000 left to count.
Gov. Gavin Newsom should have learned this four years ago: You don’t try to sell voters on more government spending in a primary election. Particularly Sacramento spending. Newsom’s Proposition 1— a proposal to pump more money into treating homeless people who are mentally ill, drug addicted or alcoholics — may finally pass after vote counting is completed. But as of this writing, it is still too close to call, with the yes and no votes virtually even. Newsom must be shocked. In January, the cocksure governor told Times reporter Taryn Luna in an interview: “I think it’s going to win overwhelmingly. Period. Full stop.”
Typical Newsom hubris.
Also, the state has already spent billions on the problem, to no avail.