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Daily Report: Money and Politics

Survey: Likely voters back tax increase, oppose high-speed rail

March 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
With most Californians worried about the state budget and opposed to trigger cuts to education, a slim majority would support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to increase taxes, according to a survey released yesterday by the Public Policy Institute of California. Among likely voters, 52 percent... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Billionaire insurance exec backs initiative to change rate rules

January 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
  UPDATE, Jan. 27, 2011: Mercury Insurance provided this response to questions about its record. The 90-year-old billionaire chairman of Mercury Insurance just won’t give up. George Joseph gave $8.2 million to put an initiative on the November ballot that supporters say... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Repeal of death penalty could save millions of dollars, analysis finds

October 10, 2011, 12:05 AM
A nonpartisan analysis of a California ballot initiative to abolish the death penalty found that it could save the state and counties in the "high tens of millions of dollars" every year. The Legislative Analyst’s Office review of the proposed initiative, which hasn't... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Florida attorneys want $250,000 back from Prop. 11 campaign

May 5, 2010, 12:07 AM
Florida bankruptcy attorneys have sent a letter to a now-defunct California ballot measure committee, asking it to return a $250,000 contribution it received in 2008 from a well-connected Fort Lauderdale lawyer who pleaded guilty to running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the Miami Herald is... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

It will be Democrat vs. Democrat if 'open primary' passes

April 30, 2010, 12:07 AM
It will be Democrat vs. Democrat in many California elections if the “open primary” initiative is enacted by voters, a new study says. The measure, Proposition 14 on the June ballot, is being pushed by Gov. Schwarzenegger as a means of ending partisan bickering and political... + read more
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Lawsuits, fundraising flap highlight battle over Prop. 15

March 25, 2010, 12:07 AM
It's been an eventful month in the battle over a June ballot measure that would create a pilot program to allow candidates for secretary of state to draw on state money to finance their campaigns, permanently repealing the state's ban on public financing in the process. State Sen. Loni Hancock... + read more
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