Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, November 5, 2022

SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION SECTION B 
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SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION SECTION B 
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2022 is Election Day 


SIERRA MADRE MUNICIPAL 
ELECTION: 

SIERRA MADRE CITY COUNCIL: 

EDWARD GARCIA 
GENE GOSS 
KRIS LOWE 

NO ON MEASURE HR 

US SENATOR FULL ALEX PADILLA 
US SENATOR SHORT ALEX PADILLA 

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
28TH DISTRICT JUDY CHU 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY 

LA COUNTY SHERIFF ROBERT LUNA 

MEASURES 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEASURE PCC 
YES supports authorizing the Pasadena Area 
Community College to issue $565 million dollars in 
bonds with bond revenue going to fund school facilities 
and requiring an estimated property tax levy 
of $20 per $100,000 of assessed value. 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEASURE C 
YES supports enacting taxes on marijuana businesses 
in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles 
County, including $10 per square foot for cultivation; 
a 6% tax on gross retail receipts; a 2% tax on 
testing facilities' gross receipts; a 3% tax on gross 
distribution receipts; and a 4% tax on the gross reciepts 
of manufacturing and other marijuana business 
facilities. 

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEASURE A 
YES supports allowing the Los Angeles CountyBoard of Supervisors, by a four-fifths vote, to 
remove the sheriff from office for cause, which 
idefined to include: violation of laws related to the 
sheriff's duties; repeated neglect of the sheriff's duties; 
misuse of public funds or properties; willful 
falsification of documents; or obstruction of an investigation 
into the department's conduct. 

STATEWIDE 

CANDIDATES 

GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM 
LT. GOVERNOR ELENI KOUNALAKIS 
SEC. OF STATE SHIRLEY WEBER 
CONTROLLER MALIA COHEN 
TREASURER FIONA MA 
ATTY. GENERAL ROB BONTA 
INS. COMMISSIONER RICARDO LARA 

MEMBER OF STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION – 
3RD DISTRICT TONY VAZQUEZ 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 
TONY THURMOND 

MEMBER 41ST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 
CHRIS HOLDEN 

MEASURES 

CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 1, THE RIGHT TO 
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM AMENDMENT, legislatively 
referred constitutional amendment.
YES supports amending the state constitution to prohibit 
the state from interfering with or denying an individual's 
reproductive freedom, which is defined to include 
a right to an abortion and a right to contraceptives. 

PROP 26 LEGALIZES SPORTS BETTING AT AMERICAN 
INDIAN GAMING CASINOS AND LICENSED 
TRACKS IN CALIFORNIA 
NO opposes this ballot initiative, thus continuing to 
prohibit sports betting in California and roulette and 
dice games at tribal casinos. 

PROP 27 LEGALIZES MOBILE SPORTS BETTING 
AND DEDICATES REVENUE TO CA. SOLUTIONS 
TO HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT 
ACCOUNT AND THE TRIBAL ECONOMIC 
DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT 

NO opposes this ballot initiative, thus continuing to 
prohibit sports betting in California. 

PROP 28 REQUIRES FUNDING FOR K-12 ART 
AND MUSIC EDUCATION 

YES supports this ballot initiative to:

• require an annual source of funding for K-12 
public schools for arts and music education equal to, at 
minimum, 1% of the total state and local revenues that 
local education agencies receive under Proposition 98;
• distribute a portion of the additional fundingbased on a local education agency's share of economically 
disadvantaged students; and
• require schools with 500 or more students to use 
80% of the funding for employing teachers and 20% to 
training and materials. 
PROP 29 HEALTHCARE ENACTS STAFFING, REPORTIIG 
REQUIREMENTS AND OWNERHIP DISCLOSURE 
FOR DIALYSIS CLINICS 

YES supports this ballot initiative to require dialysis 
clinics to have at least one physician, nurse practitioner, 
or physician assistant while patients are being treated; 
report data on dialysis-related infections; and not discriminate 
against patients based on the source of payment 
for care. 

PROP 30 TAXES AND TRANSPORTATION INCREASES 
TAX ON PERSONAL INCOME ABOVE 
$2MILLION BY 1.75% AND REVENUE TO ZERO 
EMMISSION VEHICLE PROJECTS AND WILDLIFE 
PREVENTION 

YES supports increasing the tax on personal income 
above $2 million by 1.75% and dedicating the revenue 
to zero-emission vehicle subsidies; zero-emission vehicle 
infrastructure, such as electric vehicle charging stations; 
and wildfire suppression and prevention programs. 

PROPOSITION 31 TOBACCO BAN ON FLAVORED 
TOBACCO SALES 
YES will uphold the contested legislation, Senate Bill 
793 (SB 793), which would ban the sale of flavored tobacco 
products. 


TOM PURCELL PRE-ELECTION STRESS 
DISORDER 


I’m already anxious about the outcome. 

I speak of next week’s elections, and a modern malady 
the Mayo Clinic refers to as “Election Stress 
Disorder.” 

“We notice it in our bodies, the tension in our shoul


ders,” says Dr. Robert Bright, a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist. 
“Sometimes people get GI (gastrointestinal) upset or headaches. 
People have trouble sleeping.” 

Bright says the scary negative political ads aren’t helping our stress levels. 

“He is the candidate who voted in favor of puppy mills and sugar rationing 
and making chocolate chip cookies illegal!” such ads may as well say. 

Every time there’s an election, we’re told that it’s the most important in our 
lifetime — that if candidate XYZ wins, the sky will collapse, Earth will become 
a giant sinkhole, the Sun will stop shining…. 

If we let the hyperbole get to us, it’s no wonder it induces such a powerful 
stress response. 

The origin of stress goes back to the early days of humans, when many creatures 
didn’t view us as their superiors, but as their lunch. 

When a human saw a lion coming his way, he was overcome by stress. The 
stress brought on an adrenaline rush, and the adrenaline sent one message, 
loudly and clearly: RUN! 

“Fight or flight” stress was an essential natural response to threats and it 
kept many humans from becoming another creature’s dinner. 

But long after a human’s stress mechanism was much less needed for his 
survival, we continued to suffer from it in ways it was never intended to do. 

We suffer stress when we see the high cost of the gasoline we must put in 
our cars — so we can drive to the grocery store where we are stressed by 
the price of food that has risen faster than you can say reckless government 
spending. 

And now that, like it or not, politics has seeped into every moment of our 
waking lives, elections have become way more stressful than they once were. 

No matter what happens next week, half the country will have a temporary 
moment of joy, if their candidate wins, and the other half will suffer — you 
guessed it — more stress. 

Half the country will be certain this midterm election will have been the 
most fair and transparent in history, and the other half will be certain fraud 
caused their candidate to lose. 

Whether happy or mad, though, one thing is for certain: many won’t be 
able to resist the urge to go on social media and argue about politics with 
friends, family and neighbors, which will cause even more stress. 

And rather than cool down over political matters that are largely out of our 
control, we’ll get angrier and more vindictive and that will be the energy we 
carry into our holiday gatherings, where harsh and bitter words will be said 
that may harm relationships forever. 

So what can we do to nip election stress in the bud, Dr. Bright? 

We can relax, he says, and realize that all that we can control is our own 
vote and that it is no better or worse or more important than anybody else’s. 

“And that’s the wonderful thing about living in a democracy,” he says. “We 
each have an equal stake.” 

Besides, there’s another very important reason not to stress over our elections: 
The real stress doesn’t generally kick in until we realize we elected a 
bunch of buffoons.