Attempt to Decriminalize Prostitution

[J-Man]

There's going to be a measure on the ballot in Berkeley (Calif.) asking voters if they want to essentially decriminalize prostitution in their city. The effect of the measure would be to direct the local police to assign their lowest priority to enforcement of the laws against prostitution. Here's a link to an article on the subject from the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/22/in_california_a_bid_to_decriminalize_prostitution/

[Flower]

Seems to be the WRONG election year for this measure.

 

While most police departments, except in very rural areas, already do this very thing out of necessity, most of the voters that will be drawn to the voting booth this year will, even in California, probably be there to vote for a conservative president--not 'cause of his well thought out war policy, or lack of deception, or brilliance--but because they are casting a vote to protect the "sanctity of the marriage" from being ruined by us fags.

 

Sometimes. people don't know when to lay low.

[+ friendofsheila]

I first heard about this at an outdoor Berkeley event. The young women approaching me to talk about it were topless.

 

I'm the first to say that I'm ALL-GAY-ALL-THE-TIME; I'm also the first to admit I had a REAL hard time looking them in the eye as they talked.

[+ glutes]

Decriminalized Prostitution

 

San Francisco passed a decriminalization measure last night 56% vs 44%.

Bring on the rent boys!

[Greathands]

RE: Decriminalized Prostitution

 

All the reports I see say that the proposition did NOT pass.

[+ honcho]

RE: Decriminalized Prostitution

 

>San Francisco passed a decriminalization measure last night

>56% vs 44%.

 

According to the San Francisco Chronicle website (http://www.sfgate.com)

Proposition K *Failed* (did not pass) by 57.6% to 42.4%.

 

I signed the petition when it was being circulated in front of the

safeway nearest the castro distrcict, and I voted for the measure ;-(

 

I wonder why the Berkeley meaure attracted the attention of the

Boston globe while the SF one did not?

 

(I just went back and looked carefully and hunted up a sample ballot

from alameda county and didn't see any such measure for berkeley.

The cited boston globe article was from 2004. )

[+ glutes]

RE: Decriminalized Prostitution

 

Read the polling results incorrectly, you can be confused too if you go to:

 

http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=70720

[+ glutes]

RE: Decriminalized Prostitution

 

It sounds like a stereotypical San Franciscan's dream: spend big on affordable housing, explore public power, decriminalize prostitution, vote against the military in schools - and, like icing on the political cake, name a sewage treatment plant after George Bush.

But none of that happened.

Despite the city's far-left reputation, San Franciscans defeated a host of liberal ballot measures and voted in favor of keeping JROTC in the public schools. And perhaps even more surprisingly, 1 in 4 voters voted to ban same-sex marriage.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/BAS713UU15.DTL&tsp=1