Difference between revisions of "SB-2020-21-002: AS Positions on General Election Ballot Items, General Election 2020"

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Senate Bill No.: 2020-21-002

Date: October 7, 2020

Authored by: External Affairs Committee

Referred to: External Affairs Committee

Committee Rec: October 7. 2020 (6-1-0)

Senate Action: October 19, 2020 (14-1-2)

Title: AS positions on general election ballot items, general election 2020

1. WHEREAS: The Associated Students, Inc. (AS) is the official voice of over 38,000 students at California State University Northridge; AND

2. WHEREAS: AS is the primary advocate for students at CSUN and provides excellent, meaningful programs and services designed to create and enhance a spirited, learning focused campus environment; AND

3. WHEREAS: Elections are a vital opportunity for participation in our political process; AND

4. WHEREAS: Students possess an important voice towards the bettering of society but are not well represented in government; AND

5. WHEREAS: Society stands to benefit if students realize their political power and assert their collective influence on important ballot items; AND

6. WHEREAS: AS finds responsibility to endorse and oppose ballot items as the institutional voice of students; THEREFORE, LET IT BE

1. RESOLVED: AS endorses California proposition 15 because it correctly recognizes that funding public education should be prioritized; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

2. RESOLVED AS endorses California proposition 16 because it understands that historical inequities around race linger into the present and deserve aggressive confrontation if they are ever to be overcome; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

3. RESOLVED: AS endorses California proposition 17 because our student body harbors an ambitious community of those formerly incarcerated and understands it as their right to participate in our shared democracy; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

4. RESOLVED AS endorses California proposition 18 because young people are vital to our democracy and deserving of a voice in primaries, whose winners they would normally be eligible to vote for at their meeting the regular voting age by time of the general election; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

5. RESOLVED AS opposes California proposition 20 because we understand carcerality as a failure of our society and for that reason will not seek to increase it; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

6. RESOLVED AS endorses California proposition 21 because it preserves affordable housing for the student body by virtue of limiting the annual rent increases made by corporate landlords, helping Californians avoid the issues of housing insecurity, homelessness, and gentrification; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

7. RESOLVED AS endorses California proposition 22 because if an individual wants to be employed as a driver, they can join a taxi company where they pay a high lease for a taxi car and need to work many hours, sometimes inflexibly, to be profitable. Prop 22 is the only hope California drivers have right now for the ability to continue having the freedom to operate when they want; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

8. RESOLVED: AS endorses Los Angeles County Measure J because we understand carcerality as a failure of our society and for that reason will support efforts that move our society away from it; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

9. RESOLVED: AS maintains a neutral position on CA propositions 14, 19, 23, 24, 25; AND LET IT BE FURTHER

10. RESOLVED: That copies of this resolution be distributed widely, including but not limited to the following:

• Dianne Harrison, CSUN President
• Rafael De La Rosa, CSUN Associate Vice President for Community and Government Relations
• Brad Sherman, U.S. Representative
• Jesse Gabriel, California Assemblyman
• Robert Hertzberg, California State Senator
• Zahraa Khuraibet, CSSA President
• Northridge East Neighborhood Council
• Daily Sundial