The Lincoln Club
of Coachella Valley
2024 Election Recommendations
President
Donald J. Trump
President
U.S. Senate
U.S. SENATE
FULL TERM
Steve Garvey
U.S. SENATE
PARTIAL TERM
Ending January 3,2025
Steve Garvey
U.S. House of Representatives
Ken Calvert
CD-41
Ian Weeks
CD-25
California State Senate
Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
SD-19
State Assembly
Greg Wallis
AD-42
Jeff Gonzalez
AD-36
Riverside County Judge
Gerald Pfohl
Riverside County Judge
Coachella Valley City Councils
Indian Wells
Greg Sanders
Incumbent
Indian Wells City Council
Indio
Glenn Miller
Incumbent
Indio City Council
La Quinta
Linda Evans for Mayor
Incumbent
La Quinta City Council
La Quinta
Steve Sanchez
Incumbent
La Quinta City Council
Palm Desert
Chris Scott
District 1
Palm Desert City Council
Palm Desert
Joe Pradetto
District 2
Palm Desert City Council
Palm Desert
Gina Nestande
Incumbent – District 3
Palm Desert City Council
Rancho Mirage
Michael O’Keefe
Incumbent
Rancho Mirage City Council
Rancho Mirage
Ted Weill
Incumbent
Rancho Mirage City Council
Desert Recreation District – Division 5
Giovanna Healy
Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Thousand Palms
2024 Proposition Guide
Prop 2
Oppose
School Bond
Authorizes the state to issue $10 billion in general obligation bonds for K-12 school facility repair, modernization, and construction. Bonds increase costs for taxpayers. California already has a deficit with revenues down.
Prop 3
Neutral
Marriage Equality
Same sex marriage has been legal in California since June 18, 2023. Both the California Assembly and Senate voted to approve a constitutional amendment repealing the text of Proposition 8 and replacing it with “The right to marry is a fundamental right.”
Prop 4
Oppose
Climate Bond
Authorizes the state to issue $10 billion in general obligation bonds to finance projects for drinking water upgrades, wildfire and forest programs, flood control, and other climate programs. General and vague and lends itself to an open checkbook.
Prop 5
Oppose
Voter Threshold Reduction to Pass
Allows a city, county, or special district with 55% voter approval, to incur bonded indebtedness to fund projects for affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, or public infrastructure. Two thirds voter approval, not the 55% proposed, is required as defined in the California Constitution.
Prop 6
Oppose
Prison Labor Ban
Prohibits the Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation from disciplining any incarcerated person for refusing a work assignment. The measure would also clarify that its provisions do not prohibit the Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation from awarding credits to an incarcerated person who voluntarily accepts a work assignment.
Prop 32
Oppose
Statewide Minimum Wage
Existing law requires annual increases to California’s minimum wage until it has reached $15.00 per hour for all business on January 1, 2023. This measure extends these annual increases ($1.00 per year) until minimum wage, $16.00 per hour for businesses with 26 or more employees, and $14.00 per hour for smaller businesses—reaches $18.00 per hour.
Prop 33
Oppose
Statewide Rent Control Expansion
Repeals the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (1995). This would allow cities and counties to limit rent on any housing (single family homes, new developments, new construction) and prohibits the state from limiting “the right of any city, county, or city and county to maintain enact or expand residential rent control”. Statewide rental control initiatives: Prop 10 in 2018 was rejected by 59% of voters; Prop 21 (2020) rejected by 60% of Voters.
Prop 34
Support
Healthcare Provider Spending Mandate
Requires certain health care providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. Applies only to health care providers that: spent over $100,000 in any ten-year period on anything other than direct patient care and operated multifamily housing with over 500 high-severity health and safety violations. Penalizes noncompliance by revoking health care licenses and tax-exempt status. Permanently authorizes state to negotiate Medi-Cal drug prices on statewide basis. Health care providers can no longer manipulate the program and abuse the system to fund political activities and unrelated real estate investments.
Prop 35
Support
Medical Funding Lockbox
Makes permanent the existing assessment on managed health care insurance plans, currently set to expire in 2026, which the state uses to pay for health care services for low-income families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and other groups covered by the program. Requires revenues to be used only for specified Medi-Cal services. Prohibits revenues from being used to replace other existing Medi-Cal funding. The State has previously redirected these revenues to offset General Fund spending.
Prop 36
Support
Criminal Justice Reform
Allows felony charges for possessing certain drugs, including fentanyl, and for thefts under $950—both currently chargeable only as misdemeanors—with two prior drug or two prior theft convictions, as applicable.
Defendants who plead guilty to felony drug possession and complete treatment can have charges dismissed.
Increased prison sentences may reduce savings that currently fund mental health and drug treatment programs, K-12 schools, and crime victims; any remaining savings may be used for new felony treatment program.
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