SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Calif. (AP) Gov. Jerry Brown has called the campaign for his November tax-increase initiative the top priority of his current term in office, but it might be hard to tell. The campaign for Proposition 30 has raised more than $41 million, mostly from...
Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Brown is counting on Proposition 30 to generate an estimated $8.5 billion in the current budget cycle and $6 billion annually thereafter. Following is the text of one ad that aired Wednesday in the Sacramento market and an analysis by Kevin Yamamura...
Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
This is the politics of the practical, the doable," says the ballot measure's chief campaign strategist, Ace Smith. "It's not Plato's Republicnot like the perfect government system that we'd draw from the textbooks."...It would make the state's...
San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Proposition 30 Gov. Jerry Brown's initiative would increase the sales tax by a quarter of a cent and hike income taxes on the rich to fund education and balance the general fund budget. The Yes on 30 campaign on Wednesday began airing a series of...