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2020 California Primary Results

March 4, 2020 11:20 amMarch 4, 2020 5:09 pm

Note: All results are current as of 11:20 A.M. Presidential Democratic Primary Bernie Sanders (VT) 878,562 32.7% (Also won California, Colorado, Utah, Vermont) Elizabeth Warren (MA) 326,616 12.2% Michael...

California Lottery Found to Have Not Paid Schools $36 million

February 27, 2020 7:50 pm

According to a report by the California State Auditor’s office on Tuesday the California Lottery owes schools across California $36 million in unpaid funding. $36 million not paid in one fiscal year The audit found that, within the 2017-2018 fiscal...

California Split Roll Ballot Measure Destroys Prop 13 Protections for California Farmers, Threatens Rural Communities

February 20, 2020 3:44 pmMarch 9, 2020 7:40 am

Agriculture was always considered sacred in the eyes of California’s property taxing agencies, and especially under Proposition 13. But that could change with the split roll property tax ballot initiative in November 2020. Prop. 13 was a 1978 ballot initiative...

Tax fighter Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13

CA Attorney General Writes Biased Title & Summary for $12.5 Billion ‘Split Roll’ Property Tax Hike

January 27, 2020 11:03 amJanuary 29, 2020 10:25 am

Anti-Proposition 13 special interests have already qualified one ballot measure for the November 2020 statewide ballot that would dismantle the 1978 ballot initiative’s property tax protections, and are currently gathering signatures to qualify a slightly more appealing sounding second version....

CA Commercial Property Owners Facing Pervasive Tax Increases if Prop. 13 Split Roll Initiative Passes

December 3, 2019 3:08 pm

‘California’s assessable property is now worth $6.5 trillion with just last year’s increase resulting in $75 billion in revenue.’ Despite California’s record budget surplus of $7 billion in reserves, the Proposition 13 “split roll” property tax ballot initiative could...

‘Destined to Burn’ Because Rural CA Towns Vote Against Taxes to Increase Fire Safety?

November 6, 2019 12:27 pmNovember 6, 2019 12:35 pm

Does Proposition 13 cause firefighters to lose their jobs? “This California firefighter nearly died,” proclaimed the headline of Ryan Sabalow’s Sacramento Bee report on Monday. “Then voters laid him off — in fight for lower taxes.” If they continue...

Sacramento Taxpayers President Warns of Prop. 13 Bait and Switch

November 6, 2019 7:41 amNovember 8, 2019 8:36 am

Debra Desrosiers, President of the Sacramento Taxpayers Association, walked out of Sam’s Club in Yuba City Saturday and saw a guy at a table collecting signatures for ballot initiatives. “Read the signs… who wouldn’t sign what is on the table?...