We need every San Diego voter to take a stand with regular working people and reject the multiple attempted power grabs by billionaires that are on the November 2026 ballot. Corporate interests and billionaires are trying to hoard money, privatize education and housing, contaminate our neighborhoods and rob us of our ability to vote. On top of that, they are trying to stop us from raising the revenue and transforming our local government in ways that will allow us to better stand up for ourselves and our neighbors.
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CPI endorses Measure A because it supports our work to make local government more transparent and accountable to working-class San Diegans.
Measure A would give San Diegans better information on how the County spends your money by requiring public access to County spending data. It will also set up an office to provide evaluations so you know if County programs are delivering results for you and your neighbors. That gives you more power to hold the County government accountable and fight for what our communities need to thrive.
Measure A also supports stable and accountable leadership by setting a twelve-year maximum for County Supervisors. No other California County has eight-year limits and twelve-year maximums are also the norm for the State legislature. Adding one additional term encourages everyday people to run for office, while allowing voters to retain experienced representatives if they want, all while preserving firm term limits.
CPI endorses Measure B because it supports our regional fight for a People’s Budget by raising revenue for what working-class San Diegans need to thrive and feel safe.
Measure B is projected to raise about $400 million through a half-cent county-wide sales tax. San Diegans already needed a strong social safety net, before the federal government made drastic cuts so that billionaires could hoard more money. Now more than ever, the County needs money to provide housing assistance for seniors and children, food assistance for hungry San Diegans and to make sure everyone has access to healthcare. We need this revenue for the County to be a place where we all thrive.
CPI endorses Prop 3 because it supports our fight for education justice. We want to keep schools public and make sure teachers, students and families have the resources they need.
Proposition 3 would make permanent an existing tax on the wealthiest Californians, those making over $361,000 a year. Our schools are already underfunded, if we don’t pass Proposition 3 this November, we’ll lose our current funding and be in an even more dire situation. For 15 years, this tax has helped keep class sizes from growing, allowed us to provide school lunches, paid for mental health supports for students and provided Medi-Cal coverage for millions of families.
Unless Californian’s vote yes on Prop 3, this funding source expires in 2030. This means we’ll have fewer teachers, class sizes will get bigger, and students will lose needed support. We should be increasing school funding, not slashing it.
CPI supports Prop 40 because it raises revenue by making billionaires, the people who are making money off of the labor of working-class people, contribute to California’s future.
Prop 40 places a one time tax of up to 5% on Californians who have a net worth of over $1 billion. Unfortunately, California has the highest number and concentration of billionaires in the US for a reason. Our history of investing in education, healthcare and public goods is a good thing and it’s why for generations we’ve been the state where innovation happens. But, rather than being grateful, the billionaires have then taken every opportunity to take more and pay less.
While we support Prop 40, we believe that it is only a short term solution. Billionaires and corporate interests are exploiting working people, hoarding wealth and are being subsidized by our tax dollars. We need a permanent tax on the rich to ensure that our government works for working people.
CPI opposes Prop 39 because it undermines our democracy and benefits billionaires’ attempts to consolidate power and control our elections.
Prop 39 is a form of voter suppression, no different than the poll taxes and literacy tests that kept working class voters from voting in the past. Prop 39 requires government issued IDs to vote, creates new barriers for Californians to vote by mail, all while making elections more expensive and less secure. Almost 90% of people who voted in the June primary in California voted by mail.
Making it harder to participate in democracy serves the wealthy minority who cannot win otherwise. The people supporting this proposition are not trying to make voting more secure, they think the problem is that too many of us have the right to vote. If we want a democracy that works for working people rather than one controlled by the wealthy, we should be making it easier for eligible people to vote, not more difficult.
CPI opposes Prop 41 because it would make it harder to raise money for public programs and would help billionaires hoard wealth.
Prop 41 would make it harder for voters to add funding to public programs by requiring program audits before voting on special taxes and limiting our ability to spend new revenue. This proposition is funded by billionaires in an attempt to invalidate Prop 40, the billionaire tax. A provision in Prop 41 bans taxes that are exempt from state pending limits, which is a direct attempt to undermine Prop 40 even after voters show that they want to tax billionaires.
CPI opposes Prop 42 because it would increase economic inequality, hurt working-class people and help billionaires hoard wealth.
Prop 42 is an attack on democracy. It would permanently prohibit new state taxes on financial assets and personal property, even if voters wanted to support these taxes. The point of Prop 42 is to limit our ability to tax the ultra rich.
PROP 42 would not only invalidate Prop 40, it would make it nearly impossible going forward to hold corporations and billionaires accountable to pay their share.
Protect working-class people, vote no on Prop 42!
CPI opposes Prop 43 because it would make it harder to raise revenue for our cities and county and would undermine our fight for People’s Budgets.
Prop 43 would require at least two-thirds of voters to approve or extend local taxes instead of the current simple majority vote currently required. This is an anti-democratic measure pushed by billionaires. They know that most people want them to pay their fair share so they want to stop the law from listening to the majority of the people.
Our public services are being cut year after year and this is another attempt to undermine governments’ ability to function efficiently and provide the services we need. We should not make it harder to fund the programs and services working-class communities need to thrive.
CPI opposes Prop 45 and is following the recommendations of trusted environmental justice organizations like California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) and labor unions.
This November we have the opportunity to stand with working-class communities and reject billionaires and corporations attempts to build polluting projects with little public oversight and accountability. We know that they aren’t going to build these toxic projects in their backyards.
Prop 45 would weaken working class communities’ ability to protect ourselves from massive data centers, freeway expansions, and landfill gas facilities next to our schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods.