LA Tax Proposals and Prop 30
The Los Angeles City Council voted to move ahead on four potential tax measures for the March citywide ballot – but the timing of the move could complicate those pushing tax increases on the state ballot. Even though the city election is months away, some voters just might connect the dots and decide they are […]
The Latest Prop. 30 Poll and the Lessons of History
What to make of the new Field Poll on Prop. 30? Looking back at the state’s political history, most propositions in roughly similar situations pass, but tax-increase measures fare especially poorly in the final week, with undecided voters breaking sharply toward opposition, and sometimes even with former supporters migrating to the no column. Here are […]
11 Awesome Props: Proposition 39
Editor’s Note: Frequent Fox and Hounds contributor, Joe Mathews, will give his unique perspective on all eleven November ballot measures over the course of the next month. He will take them in the order they appear on the ballot. Proposition 39 is all about a very rare and good thing: the reversal of a policy […]
Public Television Joins in Advocating for Prop 30 and Prop 38
A resident of Menlo Park and founder of DERAIL, the original grassroots effort against the California High-Speed Rail project. Last Friday (10/26/2012), on KQED-TV, the bay area public television station, aired a 30 minute segment discussing Propositions 30 and 38. Normally from this news segment, one would expect, at least the pretense that this would […]
History Tells Us Why to Vote Yes On Proposition 33: More Insured Drivers & Lower Rates
If you want to know the benefits of Proposition 33 in the future, all you have to do is look to the past. As a former Deputy Commissioner for Rate Regulation at the California Department of Insurance (CDI), I strongly support Proposition 33 in large part because history tells us the initiative will cut the […]
Honor a Vet by Voting
With Veteran’s Day coming up, I started thinking about Carl Seiberlich, a retired Admiral who always told me to take the day off. Years ago, when I went to work with Carl in the Washington D.C. office of American President Lines (APL), while I knew that Carl was in the Navy, he rarely offered any […]