California proposal, Prop 29, tries to cut smoking and raise money for cancer research all at the same time...

I understand that government at all levels needs to cut and control spending.  But I have always felt prioritizing the money is the best way to go.

Keeping that in mind, I am rooting for this investment by California in cancer research:

Californians vote down cancer-research fund — or do they?

By a margin of less than 1%, California voters yesterday seem to have nixed a ballot measure that would make the state one of the world’s largest supporters of cancer research. But with hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots yet to be counted — many more than the 63,000-vote difference now separating the yes and no sides — the contest may not be over...

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Go Prop 29!  Feel good and keep smiling!  Pat