Mr. Swagel and Mr. Wallison strenuously opposed the proposition (you can watch this discussion on the C-Span archive).
Vice President Al Gore and Senator Bill Bradley join with the state's highest-ranking Democrat, Gov. Gray Davis, in opposing the proposition.
Despite that mandate, Ron Nehring, the chairman of the Californian Republican Party, which opposed the proposition alongside the state's Democrats and four smaller parties, said the measure would actually take power away from the mass of primary voters and hand it instead to a smaller group of party leaders and loyalists who would decide their candidates in conventions and caucuses.
Many opposing the proposition also take issue with monied tech investor's involvement.
Comparatively, a political action committee that is anti-Prop 1 spent under $100,000 on advertisements opposing the proposition.
Supporters collected more than $1.8 million in contributions in 2014, while political organizations opposing the proposition took in more than $24 million during that time. . .
Both of California's Democratic and Republican parties opposed the proposition, as did the porn industry's trade association, known as the Free Speech Coalition.
Jason Kinney, a spokesman for the campaign opposing the proposition, took issue with Nader's position, saying the consumer advocate "might stand with trial lawyers, but California's health providers, Planned Parenthood and community clinics, education, labor, business and local government groups all stand firmly against the high costs of Proposition 46". .
Although a bill was introduced by an New Democratic Party parliament member to legalise betting on single sports events, which would take the money out of the pockets of organised crime and put it back into the government's coffers, many in the MLB and NHL still staunchly opposed the proposition, arguing it would jeopardise the integrity of the games.
The bar to the left of each argument will be red if the arguer in question opposed the proposition, and green if he/she supported it.
