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Don't Look Now, But... Can Jerry Brown Actually Pull Off a Prop 30 Win?

William Bradley | Posted 01.02.2013 | Politics
Read More: Karl Rove, California, George W. Bush, Super PACs, Los Angeles News, Jerry Brown, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Charlie Munger Jr., San Francisco News, Climate Change, Green Growth, Molly Munger, California Budget Crisis, Republican Party, Dark Money, Silicon Valley, Proposition 30, Video, Politics News
William Bradley

I've predicted that Prop 30 -- the California initiative to temporarily raise taxes on the rich, along with a quarter-cent sales tax hike, to stave off big education cuts and stabilize the state budget -- will lose. Sometimes I like being wrong. This would definitely be one of those times.

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California's Billionaire Ballot: The Good, Bad, And Ugly

Jamie Court | Posted 12.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: George Joseph, California, Ballot Measures, California Ballot Proposition, Charlie Munger Jr, Politics News
Jamie Court

It takes big money to play in California's ballot measure process today, so billionaires are plenty welcome. But if they are in it for themselves, they aren't likely to fool the voters, who have a remarkable knack for rejecting any ballot initiative with a stink behind it.

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