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Kevin joined KQED in 2019, and has covered issues related to energy, wildfire, climate change and the environment.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"starkkev","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"science","roles":["administrator"]}],"headData":{"title":"Kevin Stark | KQED","description":"Senior Editor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f646bf546a63d638e04ff23b52b0e79?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/kevinstark"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"news_11932078":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11932078","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11932078","score":null,"sort":[1668284419000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-californias-eco-friendly-tax-the-rich-electorate-killed-prop-30","title":"Why California's Eco-Friendly, Tax-the-Rich Electorate Killed Prop. 30","publishDate":1668284419,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Voting down Proposition 30 might seem a little off-brand for the California electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the voters, after all, who showed no qualms just a decade ago about \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-nov-08-la-me-jerry-brown-20121109-story.html\">hiking income taxes on top earners\u003c/a> and who also \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_Tax_Increase_on_Income_Above_%241_Million_for_Mental_Health_Services_Initiative_(2004)\">hit up millionaires in 2004\u003c/a> to pay for mental health services. These are the California majorities who, as recently as June (PDF), told pollsters that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/crosstabs-likely-voters-0722.pdf\">they were either considering purchasing or had already purchased an electric car\u003c/a>. Most named air pollution, wildfires and climate change as areas of major personal concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-30-income-tax-electric-cars/\">ballot measure\u003c/a> that would have increased taxes on about 43,000 multimillionaires (on income above $2 million a year) to fund electric-car rebates and to combat wildfires has suffered an unambiguous defeat. In the statewide vote count as of late Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-election-results/#5f96571e-ac80-453f-be3a-1b2c8f977df5\">59% rejected the proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the fate of Proposition 30 may be the most compelling head-scratcher of the 2022 California election. But for the campaigns on both sides of the highly contested measure, and for many independent political observers to boot, there’s an obvious answer to this electoral mystery — and its name is Gov. Gavin Newsom.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mary Creasman, CEO, California Environmental Voters\"]'Where's the money going to come from? If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, 'Here's how we're gonna pay for it,' we are all in.'[/pullquote]“You can’t remove the governor from it,” said Matt Rodriguez, campaign manager for No on 30. “He’s a credible messenger on the opposition side, simply because I think a lot of people and a lot of Democrats take their cues from him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-propositions-newsom/\">come out swinging against Proposition 30\u003c/a> in mid-September caught many political observers by surprise. That’s both because his position seemed at odds with his reputation as a climate advocate in general and as a booster of electric cars specifically, and because his opposition was so fervent. Of the seven measures on the state ballot this year, the governor only lent his likeness and directed his own campaign resources to two — the overwhelmingly successful Proposition 1 to codify abortion rights in the California Constitution, and Proposition 30, a riskier political gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a coup for the anti-Proposition 30 forces. Comparing polls taken before and after the governor cut his first No on 30 ad, public support wilted — especially among his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drop among those who approve of Newsom was three times greater than those who were disapproving,” said Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California. The No campaign found a similar shift in its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/M-14394-No-on-Prop-30-09-12-22.jpg\">private polling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Creasman, CEO of California Environmental Voters and a member of the campaign supporting Proposition 30, also said Newsom’s role “100%” contributed to the measure’s demise, though she also blamed the No campaign for what she said were “lies” about what the ballot measure would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 “had a record number of billionaires against it, it had complete falsehoods thrown at it, and it had the most popular Democratic leader in the state against it,” she said. “And we still got 40% of the vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932083\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11932083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Gavin Newsom greets voters at a Prop 1 rally\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom at a rally endorsing ballot Prop. 1 at Long Beach City College on Nov. 6, 2022. Newsom's opposition was a key factor in voters' rejection of Prop. 30. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Creasman said the suggestion, made by Newsom and in many No on 30 ads, that Proposition 30 would have specifically benefited Lyft was false. In fact, though the measure could have helped the rideshare company meet some of the state’s vehicle electrification mandates, it would have done so by subsidizing zero-emission vehicles and expanding charging infrastructure in general, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-ballot-measures-prop-30-key-numbers/#8f9fce7f-c7fd-4f1c-b2ce-aff54c57df33\">not by providing money to Lyft directly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, however, provided roughly 94% of the funding, nearly $48 million, for the Yes on Proposition 30 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creasman said she was especially puzzled by the governor’s position, given his support for a state policy to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/\">phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035\u003c/a>. The governor and Legislature have committed $10 billion to zero-emission programs and subsidies over the next five years. But Creasman argued that making the mandated transition will require more, and more reliable, public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure of Proposition 30 puts the ball in the governor’s court, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the money going to come from?” said Creasman. “If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, ‘Here’s how we’re gonna pay for it,’ we are all in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a referendum on climate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Creasman and Rodriguez cautioned against drawing any sweeping conclusions about California voters’ policy preferences from the outcome of this single contentious proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will voters “still be progressive on tax policy? I think possibly,” said Rodriguez. “Will they still be very progressive on climate? I think absolutely. I don’t think any of that is gone. I just think that voters weren’t fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Vogel, author of “California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader” and a UC Berkeley professor emeritus, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see it as a referendum at all on climate change or the environment,” he said of Proposition 30. He pointed to the governor’s opposition, the neutrality of some high-profile environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and the allegations of self-dealing by Lyft as top reasons for voter skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/california/2022-endorsements\">The Sierra Club’s decision not to endorse\u003c/a> was motivated by concerns that some of the money that the measure would have directed toward wildfire mitigation could have funded clear-cutting forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was only one of many dueling endorsements and non-endorsements in the Proposition 30 campaign that may have confused voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opposing the measure, Newsom joined traditional allies in the state’s two largest teachers’ unions, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/our-advocacy/election-2022/no-on-proposition-30\">warned that Proposition 30 could reduce state funding\u003c/a> to public schools. But he broke with many\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Democrats and was on the same side\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as stranger political bedfellows, including the California Republican Party, the state Chamber of Commerce and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Mitchell, analyst, Political Data\"]'Confusion is the best friend of the No side. You don't have to even win the argument, you just have to muddy the waters.'[/pullquote]On the Yes side, the Democratic Party, many environmentalists and trade unions joined Lyft, even though they battled the corporate giant just two years ago over its successful referendum to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/after-gig-companies-prop-22-win-labor-groups-vow-challenges/\">exempt the company’s drivers from a state labor law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utter strangeness of those coalitions likely contributed to the defeat of Proposition 30, too, said Paul Mitchell, with Political Data, an election-analysis firm that works with Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it was so much the governor’s messaging, but it was confusing to voters. It was like, ‘Wait, this is an environmental thing? It’s a Lyft thing? The governor isn’t for it?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to the trend in California politics that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2019/10/ballot-california-polling-trend-slump-fact-check-myth-data/\">ballot measures frequently lose support as Election Day nears\u003c/a>. That’s often because undecided and puzzled voters are driven by a “first, do no harm” principle and, erring on the side of the status quo, vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Confusion is the best friend of the No side,” said Mitchell. “You don’t have to even win the argument, you just have to muddy the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In one of the highest-profile California election results, Prop. 30 failed despite the state's commitment to climate action and its history of taxing the wealthy. But the ballot measure also was complicated and divided Democrats, a recipe for failure.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1668474552,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1362},"headData":{"title":"Why California's Eco-Friendly, Tax-the-Rich Electorate Killed Prop. 30 | KQED","description":"In one of the highest-profile California election results, Prop. 30 failed despite the state's commitment to climate action and its history of taxing the wealthy. But the ballot measure also was complicated and divided Democrats, a recipe for failure.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11932078 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11932078","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/11/12/why-californias-eco-friendly-tax-the-rich-electorate-killed-prop-30/","disqusTitle":"Why California's Eco-Friendly, Tax-the-Rich Electorate Killed Prop. 30","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11932078/why-californias-eco-friendly-tax-the-rich-electorate-killed-prop-30","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Voting down Proposition 30 might seem a little off-brand for the California electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the voters, after all, who showed no qualms just a decade ago about \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-nov-08-la-me-jerry-brown-20121109-story.html\">hiking income taxes on top earners\u003c/a> and who also \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_Tax_Increase_on_Income_Above_%241_Million_for_Mental_Health_Services_Initiative_(2004)\">hit up millionaires in 2004\u003c/a> to pay for mental health services. These are the California majorities who, as recently as June (PDF), told pollsters that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/crosstabs-likely-voters-0722.pdf\">they were either considering purchasing or had already purchased an electric car\u003c/a>. Most named air pollution, wildfires and climate change as areas of major personal concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/propositions/prop-30-income-tax-electric-cars/\">ballot measure\u003c/a> that would have increased taxes on about 43,000 multimillionaires (on income above $2 million a year) to fund electric-car rebates and to combat wildfires has suffered an unambiguous defeat. In the statewide vote count as of late Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-election-results/#5f96571e-ac80-453f-be3a-1b2c8f977df5\">59% rejected the proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the fate of Proposition 30 may be the most compelling head-scratcher of the 2022 California election. But for the campaigns on both sides of the highly contested measure, and for many independent political observers to boot, there’s an obvious answer to this electoral mystery — and its name is Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Where's the money going to come from? If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, 'Here's how we're gonna pay for it,' we are all in.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Mary Creasman, CEO, California Environmental Voters","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You can’t remove the governor from it,” said Matt Rodriguez, campaign manager for No on 30. “He’s a credible messenger on the opposition side, simply because I think a lot of people and a lot of Democrats take their cues from him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-propositions-newsom/\">come out swinging against Proposition 30\u003c/a> in mid-September caught many political observers by surprise. That’s both because his position seemed at odds with his reputation as a climate advocate in general and as a booster of electric cars specifically, and because his opposition was so fervent. Of the seven measures on the state ballot this year, the governor only lent his likeness and directed his own campaign resources to two — the overwhelmingly successful Proposition 1 to codify abortion rights in the California Constitution, and Proposition 30, a riskier political gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a coup for the anti-Proposition 30 forces. Comparing polls taken before and after the governor cut his first No on 30 ad, public support wilted — especially among his supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drop among those who approve of Newsom was three times greater than those who were disapproving,” said Dean Bonner, associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California. The No campaign found a similar shift in its \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/M-14394-No-on-Prop-30-09-12-22.jpg\">private polling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Creasman, CEO of California Environmental Voters and a member of the campaign supporting Proposition 30, also said Newsom’s role “100%” contributed to the measure’s demise, though she also blamed the No campaign for what she said were “lies” about what the ballot measure would actually do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 “had a record number of billionaires against it, it had complete falsehoods thrown at it, and it had the most popular Democratic leader in the state against it,” she said. “And we still got 40% of the vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932083\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11932083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Gavin Newsom greets voters at a Prop 1 rally\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244567253-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom at a rally endorsing ballot Prop. 1 at Long Beach City College on Nov. 6, 2022. Newsom's opposition was a key factor in voters' rejection of Prop. 30. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Creasman said the suggestion, made by Newsom and in many No on 30 ads, that Proposition 30 would have specifically benefited Lyft was false. In fact, though the measure could have helped the rideshare company meet some of the state’s vehicle electrification mandates, it would have done so by subsidizing zero-emission vehicles and expanding charging infrastructure in general, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-ballot-measures-prop-30-key-numbers/#8f9fce7f-c7fd-4f1c-b2ce-aff54c57df33\">not by providing money to Lyft directly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, however, provided roughly 94% of the funding, nearly $48 million, for the Yes on Proposition 30 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creasman said she was especially puzzled by the governor’s position, given his support for a state policy to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/electric-cars-california-to-phase-out-gas-cars/\">phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035\u003c/a>. The governor and Legislature have committed $10 billion to zero-emission programs and subsidies over the next five years. But Creasman argued that making the mandated transition will require more, and more reliable, public funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failure of Proposition 30 puts the ball in the governor’s court, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where’s the money going to come from?” said Creasman. “If the governor has some exciting, innovative new stuff that he can pull out of his pocket and say, ‘Here’s how we’re gonna pay for it,’ we are all in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not a referendum on climate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Creasman and Rodriguez cautioned against drawing any sweeping conclusions about California voters’ policy preferences from the outcome of this single contentious proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will voters “still be progressive on tax policy? I think possibly,” said Rodriguez. “Will they still be very progressive on climate? I think absolutely. I don’t think any of that is gone. I just think that voters weren’t fooled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Vogel, author of “California Greenin’: How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader” and a UC Berkeley professor emeritus, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see it as a referendum at all on climate change or the environment,” he said of Proposition 30. He pointed to the governor’s opposition, the neutrality of some high-profile environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and the allegations of self-dealing by Lyft as top reasons for voter skepticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/california/2022-endorsements\">The Sierra Club’s decision not to endorse\u003c/a> was motivated by concerns that some of the money that the measure would have directed toward wildfire mitigation could have funded clear-cutting forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that was only one of many dueling endorsements and non-endorsements in the Proposition 30 campaign that may have confused voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opposing the measure, Newsom joined traditional allies in the state’s two largest teachers’ unions, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cta.org/our-advocacy/election-2022/no-on-proposition-30\">warned that Proposition 30 could reduce state funding\u003c/a> to public schools. But he broke with many\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Democrats and was on the same side\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>as stranger political bedfellows, including the California Republican Party, the state Chamber of Commerce and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Confusion is the best friend of the No side. You don't have to even win the argument, you just have to muddy the waters.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Paul Mitchell, analyst, Political Data","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the Yes side, the Democratic Party, many environmentalists and trade unions joined Lyft, even though they battled the corporate giant just two years ago over its successful referendum to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/after-gig-companies-prop-22-win-labor-groups-vow-challenges/\">exempt the company’s drivers from a state labor law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utter strangeness of those coalitions likely contributed to the defeat of Proposition 30, too, said Paul Mitchell, with Political Data, an election-analysis firm that works with Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it was so much the governor’s messaging, but it was confusing to voters. It was like, ‘Wait, this is an environmental thing? It’s a Lyft thing? The governor isn’t for it?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell pointed to the trend in California politics that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/california-election-2020/2019/10/ballot-california-polling-trend-slump-fact-check-myth-data/\">ballot measures frequently lose support as Election Day nears\u003c/a>. That’s often because undecided and puzzled voters are driven by a “first, do no harm” principle and, erring on the side of the status quo, vote no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Confusion is the best friend of the No side,” said Mitchell. “You don’t have to even win the argument, you just have to muddy the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11932078/why-californias-eco-friendly-tax-the-rich-electorate-killed-prop-30","authors":["byline_news_11932078"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_30879","news_22457","news_31949","news_17602"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11932080","label":"news_18481"},"news_11931410":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11931410","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11931410","score":null,"sort":[1667980783000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-reject-tax-on-rich-to-boost-electric-vehicle-use","title":"California Voters Reject Tax on Rich to Boost Electric Vehicle Use","publishDate":1667980783,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California voters decisively rejected a bid to raise billions of dollars for the state’s electric-vehicle infrastructure by increasing income taxes on its wealthiest residents — a measure staunchly opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and a coalition of business groups and billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 would have levied an additional 1.75% personal income tax on individual Californians or married couples who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state would have been required to spend 80% of that revenue on electric-vehicle rebates and on the installation of charging stations in public places and residences. The remaining funds would have gone toward wildfire mitigation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is the largest source of planet-warming emissions in California, accounting for roughly 40%. Wildfires, meanwhile, are spewing tens of millions of tons of carbon into the air as they burn up California’s forests, threatening to set back the state's progress on meeting its climate goals.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"electric-vehicles\"]The measure's defeat marks a win for Newsom, who campaigned against it despite his administration’s moves to ban the sale of most new gas-powered cars next decade. He branded it a taxpayer-funded giveaway to rideshare companies, which, under California regulations, must ensure that nearly all trips booked through their services are zero-emission by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California voters decisively rejected this poorly crafted and unnecessary tax hike,\" the No campaign said in a statement. \"The fact is Proposition 30 was a solution to an issue the state is already addressing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups who backed Proposition 30 said it was a vital investment in the fight against climate change and bad air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">In early returns\u003c/a>, the measure had garnered just over 40% support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So little was actually discussed about the actual policy and so much was talked about the money,\" said Steven Maviglio, spokesperson for the Yes campaign. \"I think the early indicators and the polling showed that Californians really wanted some bold climate action, and that's what Prop. 30 represented. Unfortunately, we had a governor who rallied against all his own programs that would be funded, for whatever reason. Still unclear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Newsom's opposition split him from the California Democratic Party. He instead sided with conservatives, anti-tax and business groups and billionaires who spent millions to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom argued that Proposition 30 would disrupt the state's finances and that it was unnecessary in California, which has already committed billions from its record budget surplus to funding electric-vehicle initiatives. He called the measure a corporate tax grab on the part of Lyft, the largest donor to the Yes campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support among likely voters for the measure started out high and over the summer hovered well above the 50% support it needed to pass, according to polls. But Newsom's aggressive opposition to it found an audience with voters and chiseled away at that advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Newsom’s direction earlier this year, California air regulators adopted a ban on the sale of new cars that run solely on gasoline, starting in 2035. Car companies would have to sell vehicles powered by hydrogen or batteries, or hybrids that run on a gas-battery combo. People could still drive their gas-powered cars or buy used ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom noted his administration has already dedicated $10 billion over the next six years to boost electric transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the measure, including most major environmental groups, argued the state needs a dedicated, robust source of funding to set up infrastructure that can handle more plug-in cars and help Californians of all income levels buy them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, about 18% of new car sales in California have been for fully electric or hybrid cars, according to Newsom’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will have to double by 2026 to meet new state mandates for car sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2045, the state wants to be “carbon neutral,” which means it wouldn’t put any emissions into the air that it can’t remove. That will require a massive reduction in emissions from vehicles and other sources, as well as the buildup of technologies that can capture carbon as it is emitted, or pull it from the air and store it underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Proposition 30 would have levied an additional 1.75% personal income tax on individual Californians or married couples who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1668025883,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":731},"headData":{"title":"California Voters Reject Tax on Rich to Boost Electric Vehicle Use | KQED","description":"Proposition 30 would have levied an additional 1.75% personal income tax on individual Californians or married couples who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11931410 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11931410","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/11/08/california-voters-reject-tax-on-rich-to-boost-electric-vehicle-use/","disqusTitle":"California Voters Reject Tax on Rich to Boost Electric Vehicle Use","WpOldSlug":"elex-pre-write-prop-30","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11931410/california-voters-reject-tax-on-rich-to-boost-electric-vehicle-use","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California voters decisively rejected a bid to raise billions of dollars for the state’s electric-vehicle infrastructure by increasing income taxes on its wealthiest residents — a measure staunchly opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and a coalition of business groups and billionaires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 would have levied an additional 1.75% personal income tax on individual Californians or married couples who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state would have been required to spend 80% of that revenue on electric-vehicle rebates and on the installation of charging stations in public places and residences. The remaining funds would have gone toward wildfire mitigation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation is the largest source of planet-warming emissions in California, accounting for roughly 40%. Wildfires, meanwhile, are spewing tens of millions of tons of carbon into the air as they burn up California’s forests, threatening to set back the state's progress on meeting its climate goals.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"electric-vehicles"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The measure's defeat marks a win for Newsom, who campaigned against it despite his administration’s moves to ban the sale of most new gas-powered cars next decade. He branded it a taxpayer-funded giveaway to rideshare companies, which, under California regulations, must ensure that nearly all trips booked through their services are zero-emission by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California voters decisively rejected this poorly crafted and unnecessary tax hike,\" the No campaign said in a statement. \"The fact is Proposition 30 was a solution to an issue the state is already addressing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups who backed Proposition 30 said it was a vital investment in the fight against climate change and bad air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures\">In early returns\u003c/a>, the measure had garnered just over 40% support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So little was actually discussed about the actual policy and so much was talked about the money,\" said Steven Maviglio, spokesperson for the Yes campaign. \"I think the early indicators and the polling showed that Californians really wanted some bold climate action, and that's what Prop. 30 represented. Unfortunately, we had a governor who rallied against all his own programs that would be funded, for whatever reason. Still unclear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Newsom's opposition split him from the California Democratic Party. He instead sided with conservatives, anti-tax and business groups and billionaires who spent millions to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom argued that Proposition 30 would disrupt the state's finances and that it was unnecessary in California, which has already committed billions from its record budget surplus to funding electric-vehicle initiatives. He called the measure a corporate tax grab on the part of Lyft, the largest donor to the Yes campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support among likely voters for the measure started out high and over the summer hovered well above the 50% support it needed to pass, according to polls. But Newsom's aggressive opposition to it found an audience with voters and chiseled away at that advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Newsom’s direction earlier this year, California air regulators adopted a ban on the sale of new cars that run solely on gasoline, starting in 2035. Car companies would have to sell vehicles powered by hydrogen or batteries, or hybrids that run on a gas-battery combo. People could still drive their gas-powered cars or buy used ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom noted his administration has already dedicated $10 billion over the next six years to boost electric transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the measure, including most major environmental groups, argued the state needs a dedicated, robust source of funding to set up infrastructure that can handle more plug-in cars and help Californians of all income levels buy them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, about 18% of new car sales in California have been for fully electric or hybrid cars, according to Newsom’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will have to double by 2026 to meet new state mandates for car sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2045, the state wants to be “carbon neutral,” which means it wouldn’t put any emissions into the air that it can’t remove. That will require a massive reduction in emissions from vehicles and other sources, as well as the buildup of technologies that can capture carbon as it is emitted, or pull it from the air and store it underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11931410/california-voters-reject-tax-on-rich-to-boost-electric-vehicle-use","authors":["11608"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_255","news_30879","news_21348","news_16","news_4524","news_17602"],"featImg":"news_11923225","label":"news"},"news_11930190":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11930190","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11930190","score":null,"sort":[1666839604000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"support-for-prop-30-slips-following-newsoms-opposition-blitz-new-poll-shows","title":"Support for Prop. 30 Slips Following Newsom's Opposition Blitz, New Poll Shows","publishDate":1666839604,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Support among likely voters for Proposition 30, a clean air initiative that would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates, has fallen well below the 50% it needs to pass, according to a new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, a similar survey found that nearly two-thirds of likely voters favored the measure, and it still maintained a strong majority as recently as September. But support has slid markedly since then, with the latest survey showing just 41% of likely voters still in favor of it — a change largely attributed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's well-funded efforts to derail the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of things that people liked about [Proposition 30], but they're just hearing too many things that come from people that they trust that raise questions about whether this is the kind of climate change bill that they should support,” said Mark Baldassare, PPIC's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s staunch opposition to Proposition 30 — promoted in a recent blitz of mailings and TV ads — has him siding with conservative anti-tax and business groups and billionaires who have collectively spent more than $10 million to defeat it. Some of the biggest funders of the No campaign include Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and Oakland A’s owner John Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued Proposition 30 would disrupt the state’s finances and is unnecessary in California, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/01/26/governor-newsom-outlines-historic-10-billion-zero-emission-vehicle-package-to-lead-the-worlds-transition-to-clean-energy-combat-climate-change/\">already committed billions\u003c/a> from its record budget surplus to funding electric vehicle initiatives. He has called the measure a corporate tax grab on the part of Lyft, the largest donor to the Yes campaign.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"proposition-30\"]But environmental groups who devised Proposition 30 say it's a vital investment in the fight against climate change and bad air quality. If passed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929046/some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered\">the measure\u003c/a> would increase state income taxes — by 1.75% — on Californians who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually. The state would be required to spend 80% of that revenue on electric-vehicle rebates and on the installation of charging stations in public places and residences. The remaining funds would go toward wildfire mitigation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition for Clean Air, a key backer of the measure, was quick to refute the latest PPIC polling results, insisting in a statement that “independent polls, as well as private polling, have shown dramatically different results than this survey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the California Democratic Party and the American Lung Association, along with a spate of environmental groups and labor unions, including those representing firefighters, still support the measure and “are working tirelessly in this election for the benefits of clean air, climate action and reducing wildfires that will result from the initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s sway with voters, in spite of the pessimism most Californians have about the economy and the state’s future, is also evident in the governor’s race. With voters already casting ballots, Newsom leads his opponent, state Sen. Brian Dahle, a Lassen County Republican, by a nearly 20-point margin, the PPIC poll found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's really remarkable about the findings of this October survey are that despite the fact that majorities of Californians think that the state is headed in the wrong direction, and an overwhelming majority feel that the nation is headed in the wrong direction, that Newsom leads by a substantial margin,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a reflection of the fact that we are very polarized in terms of the electorate in this blue state, with 90% of Democrats saying that, that they're sticking with the Democrat and 90% of Republicans saying that, that they're going to go with the Republican,\" said Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also found that abortion is the most important issue to voters, especially Democrats and independents. And among the 10 most competitive House districts in California, it found that likely voters favor the Democratic candidate over the Republican by a whopping 22% advantage — in spite of the oft-reported headwinds facing Democrats over major issues like inflation, gas prices and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"\u003c/b>With a majority of likely voters saying that they approve of President Biden, this is a very different political climate in California than we're seeing nationally,\" Baldassare noted. \"And as a result, in those competitive districts, the Democrats are ahead of the Republicans by a sizable margin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the high level of importance voters are placing on abortion is also giving Democrats a lift they might not otherwise have in this midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistent with the findings of other recent polls, the PPIC survey showed Propositions 26 and 27 — to legalize sports betting in California — both heading for defeat, with likely voters opposing the measures by 57% and 67% respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out … relatively few people are interested in sports gambling in the state,” Baldassare said, noting the high threshold that the well-funded backers of both measures will have to clear to secure passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The measure, which would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates, maintained strong majority support as recently as last month, but a new survey indicates just 41% of likely voters now back it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666887508,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":872},"headData":{"title":"Support for Prop. 30 Slips Following Newsom's Opposition Blitz, New Poll Shows | KQED","description":"The measure, which would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates, maintained strong majority support as recently as last month, but a new survey indicates just 41% of likely voters now back it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11930190 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11930190","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/26/support-for-prop-30-slips-following-newsoms-opposition-blitz-new-poll-shows/","disqusTitle":"Support for Prop. 30 Slips Following Newsom's Opposition Blitz, New Poll Shows","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11930190/support-for-prop-30-slips-following-newsoms-opposition-blitz-new-poll-shows","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Support among likely voters for Proposition 30, a clean air initiative that would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates, has fallen well below the 50% it needs to pass, according to a new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, a similar survey found that nearly two-thirds of likely voters favored the measure, and it still maintained a strong majority as recently as September. But support has slid markedly since then, with the latest survey showing just 41% of likely voters still in favor of it — a change largely attributed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's well-funded efforts to derail the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of things that people liked about [Proposition 30], but they're just hearing too many things that come from people that they trust that raise questions about whether this is the kind of climate change bill that they should support,” said Mark Baldassare, PPIC's president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s staunch opposition to Proposition 30 — promoted in a recent blitz of mailings and TV ads — has him siding with conservative anti-tax and business groups and billionaires who have collectively spent more than $10 million to defeat it. Some of the biggest funders of the No campaign include Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and Oakland A’s owner John Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has argued Proposition 30 would disrupt the state’s finances and is unnecessary in California, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/01/26/governor-newsom-outlines-historic-10-billion-zero-emission-vehicle-package-to-lead-the-worlds-transition-to-clean-energy-combat-climate-change/\">already committed billions\u003c/a> from its record budget surplus to funding electric vehicle initiatives. He has called the measure a corporate tax grab on the part of Lyft, the largest donor to the Yes campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"proposition-30"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But environmental groups who devised Proposition 30 say it's a vital investment in the fight against climate change and bad air quality. If passed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929046/some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered\">the measure\u003c/a> would increase state income taxes — by 1.75% — on Californians who make more than $2 million a year, raising up to an estimated $5 billion annually. The state would be required to spend 80% of that revenue on electric-vehicle rebates and on the installation of charging stations in public places and residences. The remaining funds would go toward wildfire mitigation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coalition for Clean Air, a key backer of the measure, was quick to refute the latest PPIC polling results, insisting in a statement that “independent polls, as well as private polling, have shown dramatically different results than this survey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group noted that the California Democratic Party and the American Lung Association, along with a spate of environmental groups and labor unions, including those representing firefighters, still support the measure and “are working tirelessly in this election for the benefits of clean air, climate action and reducing wildfires that will result from the initiative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s sway with voters, in spite of the pessimism most Californians have about the economy and the state’s future, is also evident in the governor’s race. With voters already casting ballots, Newsom leads his opponent, state Sen. Brian Dahle, a Lassen County Republican, by a nearly 20-point margin, the PPIC poll found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's really remarkable about the findings of this October survey are that despite the fact that majorities of Californians think that the state is headed in the wrong direction, and an overwhelming majority feel that the nation is headed in the wrong direction, that Newsom leads by a substantial margin,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a reflection of the fact that we are very polarized in terms of the electorate in this blue state, with 90% of Democrats saying that, that they're sticking with the Democrat and 90% of Republicans saying that, that they're going to go with the Republican,\" said Baldassare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also found that abortion is the most important issue to voters, especially Democrats and independents. And among the 10 most competitive House districts in California, it found that likely voters favor the Democratic candidate over the Republican by a whopping 22% advantage — in spite of the oft-reported headwinds facing Democrats over major issues like inflation, gas prices and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"\u003c/b>With a majority of likely voters saying that they approve of President Biden, this is a very different political climate in California than we're seeing nationally,\" Baldassare noted. \"And as a result, in those competitive districts, the Democrats are ahead of the Republicans by a sizable margin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the high level of importance voters are placing on abortion is also giving Democrats a lift they might not otherwise have in this midterm election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consistent with the findings of other recent polls, the PPIC survey showed Propositions 26 and 27 — to legalize sports betting in California — both heading for defeat, with likely voters opposing the measures by 57% and 67% respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out … relatively few people are interested in sports gambling in the state,” Baldassare said, noting the high threshold that the well-funded backers of both measures will have to clear to secure passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11930190/support-for-prop-30-slips-following-newsoms-opposition-blitz-new-poll-shows","authors":["255","11608"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_31642","news_30879","news_27626","news_16","news_24474","news_347","news_164","news_31284","news_17602"],"featImg":"news_11930229","label":"news"},"news_11929046":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929046","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929046","score":null,"sort":[1665851038000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered","title":"Some Key Questions About Prop. 30 Answered","publishDate":1665851038,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Californians are just weeks away from voting on Proposition 30 in November. The plan to raise the income tax on Californians who make more than $2 million by 1.75% each year to pay for electric-vehicle incentives and wildfire prevention has split Democrats from Gov. Gavin Newsom, their standard-bearer in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State analysts estimate that the new tax on the state’s wealthiest would raise between $3.5 billion and $5 billion annually, growing over time until it expires in 2043.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires that the state spend 80% of that revenue on EV rebates, to help people, businesses and government pay for electric trucks, cars and buses, and to pay for the installation of charging stations in public and in homes and apartment buildings. The remainder would be spent on hiring and training firefighters, and other wildfire mitigation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the EV-loving Newsom opposing this measure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has vocally and publicly opposed the proposition, “warning” Californians not to be “fooled” by the campaign in support. He called it a “Trojan horse” and a “cynical scheme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opposition surprised a lot of his fellow Democrats. Investing in electric vehicles is a top priority of his administration. He ordered the state to phase out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 and said he wants to “\u003ca href=\"https://wamu.org/story/20/09/24/california-governor-on-his-order-to-ban-sale-of-new-gasoline-vehicles-by-2035/\">accelerate investment, accelerate innovation, research, development, accelerate manufacturing\u003c/a>” in that industry.[aside postID=news_11926998 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-1020x680.jpg']So why is he opposing? He has said that the plan is unnecessary, pointing to the fact that the state invested billions of dollars this year on clean car rebates, electric vehicle chargers and other transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opposing Proposition 30, Newsom villainized Lyft, saying the ride-hailing company “devised” the measure to “funnel state income tax to benefit their company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft certainly has skin in this game — and has dumped, at this writing, more than\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1443818&session=2021&view=received\"> $45 million into the Yes on 30 campaign\u003c/a>. Last year, California required that nearly all trips on ride-hailing platforms be in electric vehicles by the end of this decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 doesn’t mention the company’s name, nor would it funnel money directly to it. But it would make electric vehicles cheaper for its drivers (and all Californians) and pay to install public charging stations that these cars would use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Did Lyft devise the measure to direct state tax money its way?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has claimed that Proposition 30 was “devised by a single corporation” (read: Lyft).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure was actually designed by a coalition of environmental and other advocacy groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, SPUR and other groups. (Environmental attorneys told The Sacramento Bee that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article266237371.html\">Lyft was involved in drafting the measure\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are receipts here. Back in 2020, Denny Zane, former mayor of Santa Monica and head of Move LA, a transit advocacy group based around Los Angeles, hosted a series of events about air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one event, he asked state climate leaders, including Mary Nichols, Newsom's former top air regulator, this question: \u003ca href=\"https://www.movela.org/climate_change_the_zoom_series\">If you had $30 billion to spend fighting climate change, what would you do?\u003c/a> Many responded by saying they would invest in electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zane has a long history of pushing Californians to raise taxes to pay for clean transportation. He persuaded Los Angeles voters to pass a sales tax hike to pay for public transit with \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/measure-r/\">Measure R\u003c/a> in 2008 and again with \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/measure-m/\">Measure M\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to the ballot and it worked,” Zane told KQED in an interview. “LA now has about $120 billion over the next 40 years coming to invest in transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thought Newsom would be a partner on a statewide version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We finally had somebody who was going to help back the signature drive,” he said. “Suddenly, it's like a scheme. That's just wrong. It's just a mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft President John Zimmer has also pushed back on Newsom's assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about the health of our neighbors and communities,” he said. “That's why we agreed to get involved when environmental leaders approached us with their plan to reduce California emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How would it affect the state's finances?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s opposition has him siding with conservatives and anti-tax groups like the California Chamber of Commerce and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point out that the state already has the highest income tax rate in the country. But they also argue that it could disrupt the state’s notoriously complicated finances, in a couple of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the measure would raise the income tax only on the state’s wealthiest, many of whom rely on the stock market and other investments for their income. Their taxes can fluctuate widely, and one strong recession could crater the program; that’s one reason the LA Times editorial board issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-20/endorsement-no-on-proposition-30\">endorsement for No on Prop. 30\u003c/a>. “It doesn’t make sense to pin another priority on such a volatile funding stream,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California’s constitution limits how much the state can spend, and it has reached that limit in recent years. Here, the measure could have another unintended consequence, as it requires California to spend more money, up to $3 billion each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s Legislative Analyst's Office found that the proposition could “require the state to reduce an equal amount of spending from other programs to ‘make room’ for the new required spending on ZEV [zero-emission vehicle] programs and wildfire activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Would the measure help the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Yes on 30 campaign has trotted out prominent Democrats like Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who supports the measure, at a series of campaign events around the state. They note that California's top source of greenhouse gas emissions is transportation and argue that climate change and air pollution are killing Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 30 is an innovative measure that all Californians must support, as if their lives depend on it,” Schaaf said at a campaign kickoff event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main impact of the measure, if it were to pass, would not be to increase the number of electric vehicles on the road — although, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-10-13/how-proposition-30-could-help-california-tackle-climate-change-boiling-point\">as Sammy Roth wrote in The LA Times, the measure “could definitely speed things up.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the state’s powerful Air Resources Board passed California's new EV mandate, which bans the sale of gasoline-powered cars and trucks in the state after 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's new mandate requires a significant increase in the number of electric cars sold in California, no matter what happens with Proposition 30 in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, it would shift who pays for the vehicles, moving some cost onto higher-income taxpayers and away from consumers or carmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible as part of The California Newsroom, a collaboration of California’s public radio stations, NPR and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The plan to raise the income tax on Californians who make more than $2 million by 1.75% each year to pay for electric-vehicle incentives and wildfire prevention has split Democrats and Gov. Gavin Newsom.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1666131416,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1213},"headData":{"title":"Some Key Questions About Prop. 30 Answered | KQED","description":"The plan to raise the income tax on Californians who make more than $2 million by 1.75% each year to pay for electric-vehicle incentives and wildfire prevention has split Democrats and Gov. Gavin Newsom.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11929046 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11929046","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/15/some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered/","disqusTitle":"Some Key Questions About Prop. 30 Answered","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11929046/some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Californians are just weeks away from voting on Proposition 30 in November. The plan to raise the income tax on Californians who make more than $2 million by 1.75% each year to pay for electric-vehicle incentives and wildfire prevention has split Democrats from Gov. Gavin Newsom, their standard-bearer in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State analysts estimate that the new tax on the state’s wealthiest would raise between $3.5 billion and $5 billion annually, growing over time until it expires in 2043.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires that the state spend 80% of that revenue on EV rebates, to help people, businesses and government pay for electric trucks, cars and buses, and to pay for the installation of charging stations in public and in homes and apartment buildings. The remainder would be spent on hiring and training firefighters, and other wildfire mitigation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the EV-loving Newsom opposing this measure?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has vocally and publicly opposed the proposition, “warning” Californians not to be “fooled” by the campaign in support. He called it a “Trojan horse” and a “cynical scheme.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His opposition surprised a lot of his fellow Democrats. Investing in electric vehicles is a top priority of his administration. He ordered the state to phase out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 and said he wants to “\u003ca href=\"https://wamu.org/story/20/09/24/california-governor-on-his-order-to-ban-sale-of-new-gasoline-vehicles-by-2035/\">accelerate investment, accelerate innovation, research, development, accelerate manufacturing\u003c/a>” in that industry.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11926998","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS32599_ElectricCars_AW_03-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So why is he opposing? He has said that the plan is unnecessary, pointing to the fact that the state invested billions of dollars this year on clean car rebates, electric vehicle chargers and other transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opposing Proposition 30, Newsom villainized Lyft, saying the ride-hailing company “devised” the measure to “funnel state income tax to benefit their company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft certainly has skin in this game — and has dumped, at this writing, more than\u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1443818&session=2021&view=received\"> $45 million into the Yes on 30 campaign\u003c/a>. Last year, California required that nearly all trips on ride-hailing platforms be in electric vehicles by the end of this decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 30 doesn’t mention the company’s name, nor would it funnel money directly to it. But it would make electric vehicles cheaper for its drivers (and all Californians) and pay to install public charging stations that these cars would use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Did Lyft devise the measure to direct state tax money its way?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has claimed that Proposition 30 was “devised by a single corporation” (read: Lyft).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure was actually designed by a coalition of environmental and other advocacy groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, SPUR and other groups. (Environmental attorneys told The Sacramento Bee that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article266237371.html\">Lyft was involved in drafting the measure\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are receipts here. Back in 2020, Denny Zane, former mayor of Santa Monica and head of Move LA, a transit advocacy group based around Los Angeles, hosted a series of events about air pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one event, he asked state climate leaders, including Mary Nichols, Newsom's former top air regulator, this question: \u003ca href=\"https://www.movela.org/climate_change_the_zoom_series\">If you had $30 billion to spend fighting climate change, what would you do?\u003c/a> Many responded by saying they would invest in electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zane has a long history of pushing Californians to raise taxes to pay for clean transportation. He persuaded Los Angeles voters to pass a sales tax hike to pay for public transit with \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/measure-r/\">Measure R\u003c/a> in 2008 and again with \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/measure-m/\">Measure M\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to the ballot and it worked,” Zane told KQED in an interview. “LA now has about $120 billion over the next 40 years coming to invest in transportation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He thought Newsom would be a partner on a statewide version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We finally had somebody who was going to help back the signature drive,” he said. “Suddenly, it's like a scheme. That's just wrong. It's just a mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft President John Zimmer has also pushed back on Newsom's assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about the health of our neighbors and communities,” he said. “That's why we agreed to get involved when environmental leaders approached us with their plan to reduce California emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How would it affect the state's finances?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s opposition has him siding with conservatives and anti-tax groups like the California Chamber of Commerce and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point out that the state already has the highest income tax rate in the country. But they also argue that it could disrupt the state’s notoriously complicated finances, in a couple of ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the measure would raise the income tax only on the state’s wealthiest, many of whom rely on the stock market and other investments for their income. Their taxes can fluctuate widely, and one strong recession could crater the program; that’s one reason the LA Times editorial board issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-20/endorsement-no-on-proposition-30\">endorsement for No on Prop. 30\u003c/a>. “It doesn’t make sense to pin another priority on such a volatile funding stream,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, California’s constitution limits how much the state can spend, and it has reached that limit in recent years. Here, the measure could have another unintended consequence, as it requires California to spend more money, up to $3 billion each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia’s Legislative Analyst's Office found that the proposition could “require the state to reduce an equal amount of spending from other programs to ‘make room’ for the new required spending on ZEV [zero-emission vehicle] programs and wildfire activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Would the measure help the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Yes on 30 campaign has trotted out prominent Democrats like Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who supports the measure, at a series of campaign events around the state. They note that California's top source of greenhouse gas emissions is transportation and argue that climate change and air pollution are killing Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 30 is an innovative measure that all Californians must support, as if their lives depend on it,” Schaaf said at a campaign kickoff event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main impact of the measure, if it were to pass, would not be to increase the number of electric vehicles on the road — although, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-10-13/how-proposition-30-could-help-california-tackle-climate-change-boiling-point\">as Sammy Roth wrote in The LA Times, the measure “could definitely speed things up.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the state’s powerful Air Resources Board passed California's new EV mandate, which bans the sale of gasoline-powered cars and trucks in the state after 2035.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's new mandate requires a significant increase in the number of electric cars sold in California, no matter what happens with Proposition 30 in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, it would shift who pays for the vehicles, moving some cost onto higher-income taxpayers and away from consumers or carmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible as part of The California Newsroom, a collaboration of California’s public radio stations, NPR and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11929046/some-key-questions-about-prop-30-answered","authors":["11608"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_13","news_356","news_248"],"tags":["news_18538","news_31832","news_21348","news_31831","news_22572","news_31641","news_17602"],"featImg":"news_11929072","label":"news"},"news_11925703":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11925703","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11925703","score":null,"sort":[1663243257000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ballot-fight-over-electric-car-tax-splits-newsom-from-fellow-democrats","title":"Ballot Fight Over Electric Car Tax Splits Newsom From Fellow Democrats","publishDate":1663243257,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0037A1%20%28Electric%20Vehicle%20Funding%20%29.pdf\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, a \"clean air initiative\" that would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates and charging stations, has majority support among likely voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a survey from the Public Policy Institute of California, 55% of likely voters support the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, that's for now. The November election is still a ways out, but Prop. 30 has already generated major debate, breaking old alliances in the Democratic party and making odd political bedfellows of Gov. Gavin Newsom, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calchamber.com/\">California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and the conservative \u003ca href=\"https://www.hjta.org/\">Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Tax_on_Income_Above_%242_Million_for_Zero-Emissions_Vehicles_and_Wildfire_Prevention_Initiative_(2022)\">Prop. 30 would raise the state income tax by 1.75% for people who make more than $2 million dollars each year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state would spend about half of that revenue on zero-emission vehicle rebates, while some of it would be spent on chargers and infrastructure and the rest would fund firefighting and suppression programs and hiring and training firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11923634,news_11923224']Newsom, who remains popular and influential in California, went all-in against the measure this week, making himself\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-propositions-newsom/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the face of the opposition\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by starring solo in an advertisement \"warning\" Californians not to vote for it, calling Prop. 30 a \"Trojan horse\" and a \"cynical scheme\" by the ride-hailing giant Lyft to \"to grab a huge taxpayer-funded subsidy\" to pay for a fleet of electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Newsom's ad dropped, Lyft dumped an additional $10 million in support of Proposition 30. Big-money donors supporting the measure also include San Francisco venture capitalist Ron Conway and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer. But Lyft has contributed by far the most, a total of around $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Bay Area heavyweights from the Democratic Party (and Newsom allies) rallied in support of Prop. 30 at a kickoff event in front of Oakland's City Hall, arguing in stark and personal terms that passing the measure is absolutely necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight air pollution from the state's biggest offenders: cars and wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said pollution is not only killing our planet, it is killing our people and \"Prop. 30 will fix that. [It] is an innovative measure that all Californians must support, as if their lives depend on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11921266']Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) grew up in the community of Foresthill, now located at the eastern flank of the monstrous Mosquito Fire, which has burned through more than 60,000 acres and into that town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The community I grew up in Foresthill is at threat of being completely wiped off the face of the Earth right now for me,\" she said. \"That compels me to take action and to ask everyone to take action on this really critical issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Newsom's argument to voters: Prop. 30 is about Lyft, not climate\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Don't be fooled,\" Newsom said in his campaign ad, reportedly the only one Newsom will personally appear in this year. \"Prop. 30 is being advertised as a climate initiative but in reality it was devised by a single corporation to funnel state income taxes to benefit their company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's ad is a huge expenditure of political capital against a proposition that would fund electrical vehicle rebates and charging infrastructure — and comes only weeks after California solidified its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923540/california-poised-to-phase-out-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to phase out the sale of gasoline-powered cars next decade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's Joe Garofoli \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Newsom-s-allies-support-Prop-30-here-s-why-17439855.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported that Newsom's traditional political enemies are loving him for starring in the ad\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it's good politics, if you're going to oppose Prop. 30, to paint it as a corporate bailout. But critics say it's a cynical and disingenuous take on the measure, which was actually devised by transit and environmental justice groups such as the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/\">nonprofit think tank SPUR\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.movela.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Move LA\u003c/span>\u003c/a> from the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, those groups have pushed California to reduce its top source of greenhouse gas emissions: transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2020, they convened a bunch of California's climate intelligentsia — including Mary Nichols, Newsom's former top air regulator — and asked them this question: If you had $30 billion to spend fighting climate change, what would you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer: Invest in electric vehicle rebates and chargers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Build out charging infrastructure for passenger cars,\" said Kevin de León, former leader of the state Senate, during that event. \"The infrastructure has to be there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101890398' label='Electric Car Mandate']Lyft president John Zimmer did not say the governor's name at Wednesday's rally for Prop. 30 in Oakland, but he did push back on Newsom's assertion that the measure was \"devised\" by the company he co-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue is far, far bigger than one company or a single industry,\" he said. \"This is about the health of our neighbors and communities. That's why we agreed to get involved when environmental leaders approached us with their plan to reduce California emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year California approved a mandate for ride-hailing companies: Ninety percent of their miles logged must be with electric cars by 2030. The company has said it supports that goal but has called it unrealistic without government subsidies to support charging infrastructure, which Prop. 30 would provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmer said Prop. 30 would help \"millions of Californians finally make the transition to electric vehicles,\" which would presumably include many of the company's drivers, too. \"[Electric vehicles] should be for everyone,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Californians support Prop. 1 and Prop. 27, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PPIC poll also surveyed likely California voters about two other hot-button ballot measures: Proposition 1, to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution; and Proposition 27, to legalize online sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11918098,news_11918631']The state Legislature placed Prop. 1 on the ballot in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion and referring the issue to the states. In the months since, Democrats in California have made it a centerpiece of their midterm campaigns, seeing it as an attractive wedge issue for the state's swing voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey finds overwhelming support for the measure, with 69% of likely voters and 67% of independents planning to vote yes. Just as important for supporters hoping the measure will boost turnout in competitive congressional seats: Sixty-one percent of the electorate says the outcome of Proposition 1 is \"very important.\" The measure also enjoys the support of 70% of likely voters in districts deemed \"competitive\" by the Cook Political Report, which provides independent, nonpartisan analysis of federal and state election issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an avalanche of campaign advertisements on both sides of Proposition 27, voters seem less invested in the outcome of that one, with just 29% naming the fate of online sports betting as \"very important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gambling companies supporting the measure and the Native American tribes opposing it have raised a combined $260 million to blanket the airwaves with ads. With a month until voting begins, a majority of the electorate (54%) is opposed to allowing wagering on phones and computers, the poll found, compared to just 34% who support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC did not ask about Proposition 26, also on the November ballot, which would legalize roulette, games of dice and sports betting in tribal casinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New polling finds tax on millionaires to fund electric car rebates has big support, but Newsom's opposition advertising could shift that.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1664817985,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1241},"headData":{"title":"Ballot Fight Over Electric Car Tax Splits Newsom From Fellow Democrats | KQED","description":"New polling finds tax on millionaires to fund electric car rebates has big support, but Newsom's opposition advertising could shift that.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11925703 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11925703","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/15/ballot-fight-over-electric-car-tax-splits-newsom-from-fellow-democrats/","disqusTitle":"Ballot Fight Over Electric Car Tax Splits Newsom From Fellow Democrats","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11925703/ballot-fight-over-electric-car-tax-splits-newsom-from-fellow-democrats","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/21-0037A1%20%28Electric%20Vehicle%20Funding%20%29.pdf\">Proposition 30\u003c/a>, a \"clean air initiative\" that would tax the wealthiest Californians to pay for electric car rebates and charging stations, has majority support among likely voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a survey from the Public Policy Institute of California, 55% of likely voters support the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least, that's for now. The November election is still a ways out, but Prop. 30 has already generated major debate, breaking old alliances in the Democratic party and making odd political bedfellows of Gov. Gavin Newsom, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.calchamber.com/\">California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> and the conservative \u003ca href=\"https://www.hjta.org/\">Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Tax_on_Income_Above_%242_Million_for_Zero-Emissions_Vehicles_and_Wildfire_Prevention_Initiative_(2022)\">Prop. 30 would raise the state income tax by 1.75% for people who make more than $2 million dollars each year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state would spend about half of that revenue on zero-emission vehicle rebates, while some of it would be spent on chargers and infrastructure and the rest would fund firefighting and suppression programs and hiring and training firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11923634,news_11923224","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom, who remains popular and influential in California, went all-in against the measure this week, making himself\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/09/california-propositions-newsom/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the face of the opposition\u003c/span>\u003c/a> by starring solo in an advertisement \"warning\" Californians not to vote for it, calling Prop. 30 a \"Trojan horse\" and a \"cynical scheme\" by the ride-hailing giant Lyft to \"to grab a huge taxpayer-funded subsidy\" to pay for a fleet of electric vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Newsom's ad dropped, Lyft dumped an additional $10 million in support of Proposition 30. Big-money donors supporting the measure also include San Francisco venture capitalist Ron Conway and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer. But Lyft has contributed by far the most, a total of around $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Bay Area heavyweights from the Democratic Party (and Newsom allies) rallied in support of Prop. 30 at a kickoff event in front of Oakland's City Hall, arguing in stark and personal terms that passing the measure is absolutely necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight air pollution from the state's biggest offenders: cars and wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said pollution is not only killing our planet, it is killing our people and \"Prop. 30 will fix that. [It] is an innovative measure that all Californians must support, as if their lives depend on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11921266","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) grew up in the community of Foresthill, now located at the eastern flank of the monstrous Mosquito Fire, which has burned through more than 60,000 acres and into that town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The community I grew up in Foresthill is at threat of being completely wiped off the face of the Earth right now for me,\" she said. \"That compels me to take action and to ask everyone to take action on this really critical issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Newsom's argument to voters: Prop. 30 is about Lyft, not climate\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Don't be fooled,\" Newsom said in his campaign ad, reportedly the only one Newsom will personally appear in this year. \"Prop. 30 is being advertised as a climate initiative but in reality it was devised by a single corporation to funnel state income taxes to benefit their company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's ad is a huge expenditure of political capital against a proposition that would fund electrical vehicle rebates and charging infrastructure — and comes only weeks after California solidified its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923540/california-poised-to-phase-out-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">plan to phase out the sale of gasoline-powered cars next decade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle's Joe Garofoli \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Newsom-s-allies-support-Prop-30-here-s-why-17439855.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported that Newsom's traditional political enemies are loving him for starring in the ad\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it's good politics, if you're going to oppose Prop. 30, to paint it as a corporate bailout. But critics say it's a cynical and disingenuous take on the measure, which was actually devised by transit and environmental justice groups such as the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/\">nonprofit think tank SPUR\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.movela.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Move LA\u003c/span>\u003c/a> from the Los Angeles area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, those groups have pushed California to reduce its top source of greenhouse gas emissions: transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2020, they convened a bunch of California's climate intelligentsia — including Mary Nichols, Newsom's former top air regulator — and asked them this question: If you had $30 billion to spend fighting climate change, what would you do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer: Invest in electric vehicle rebates and chargers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Build out charging infrastructure for passenger cars,\" said Kevin de León, former leader of the state Senate, during that event. \"The infrastructure has to be there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101890398","label":"Electric Car Mandate "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lyft president John Zimmer did not say the governor's name at Wednesday's rally for Prop. 30 in Oakland, but he did push back on Newsom's assertion that the measure was \"devised\" by the company he co-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue is far, far bigger than one company or a single industry,\" he said. \"This is about the health of our neighbors and communities. That's why we agreed to get involved when environmental leaders approached us with their plan to reduce California emissions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year California approved a mandate for ride-hailing companies: Ninety percent of their miles logged must be with electric cars by 2030. The company has said it supports that goal but has called it unrealistic without government subsidies to support charging infrastructure, which Prop. 30 would provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmer said Prop. 30 would help \"millions of Californians finally make the transition to electric vehicles,\" which would presumably include many of the company's drivers, too. \"[Electric vehicles] should be for everyone,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Californians support Prop. 1 and Prop. 27, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PPIC poll also surveyed likely California voters about two other hot-button ballot measures: Proposition 1, to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution; and Proposition 27, to legalize online sports betting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11918098,news_11918631","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state Legislature placed Prop. 1 on the ballot in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion and referring the issue to the states. In the months since, Democrats in California have made it a centerpiece of their midterm campaigns, seeing it as an attractive wedge issue for the state's swing voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey finds overwhelming support for the measure, with 69% of likely voters and 67% of independents planning to vote yes. Just as important for supporters hoping the measure will boost turnout in competitive congressional seats: Sixty-one percent of the electorate says the outcome of Proposition 1 is \"very important.\" The measure also enjoys the support of 70% of likely voters in districts deemed \"competitive\" by the Cook Political Report, which provides independent, nonpartisan analysis of federal and state election issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an avalanche of campaign advertisements on both sides of Proposition 27, voters seem less invested in the outcome of that one, with just 29% naming the fate of online sports betting as \"very important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gambling companies supporting the measure and the Native American tribes opposing it have raised a combined $260 million to blanket the airwaves with ads. With a month until voting begins, a majority of the electorate (54%) is opposed to allowing wagering on phones and computers, the poll found, compared to just 34% who support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC did not ask about Proposition 26, also on the November ballot, which would legalize roulette, games of dice and sports betting in tribal casinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Guy Marzorati contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11925703/ballot-fight-over-electric-car-tax-splits-newsom-from-fellow-democrats","authors":["11608"],"categories":["news_28750","news_8","news_13","news_356"],"tags":["news_31640","news_255","news_30879","news_31738","news_22457","news_27626","news_31641","news_17602"],"featImg":"news_11925713","label":"news"},"news_11851866":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11851866","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11851866","score":null,"sort":[1608645625000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"very-troubling-what-the-departure-of-some-big-tech-firms-means-for-californias-business-horizon","title":"Tech Firms and Titans Leave California for Texas. Does It Matter?","publishDate":1608645625,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/oracle-lured-to-texas-by-lower-payrolls-and-labor-pool\">recent news\u003c/a> that Oracle, the second largest software maker in the world, plans to move its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin has resurrected familiar headlines suggesting that California is finally going to pay for its so-called hostility to business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/12/01/silicon-valley-exodus-hewlett-packard-enterprise-moving-from-san-jose-to-houston/\">recent announcement\u003c/a> by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, another Silicon Valley marquee company, to move its headquarters to Texas, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas\">Tesla founder Elon Musk's exodus\u003c/a> to the Lone Star State, Oracle’s decision has shaken some Bay Area business leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council\"]'The regulatory scheme is really tough to work through. Everything takes much longer, costs more money.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it's very troubling news because it's not unexpected,” said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a business and civic leadership group. “We've been hearing from a lot of companies, from individuals who are talking about this, and it's been on the agenda for a while now, even pre-pandemic. But I think the pandemic really expedited a lot of organizations thinking about their future strategy and remote work. And the wildfires didn't help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in San Francisco, the Bay Area Council advocates for policies that make the region hospitable to businesses and its workforce, but is also mindful of regional politics, which lean heavily Democratic and progressive. The council often supports taxes to improve infrastructure and transit, and it also endorsed Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012 sales and income tax increase measure aimed especially at high-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman says too many politicians, especially in Sacramento, are not in touch with the needs of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we see is numerous pieces of legislation that sort of further restrict businesses’ ability to function the way business would prefer to function,” he said. “The regulatory scheme is really tough to work through. Everything takes much longer, costs more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone agrees that recent high-profile corporate departures signal a kind of comeuppance for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think folks have been complaining about California's hostile business environment for decades, and that certainly hasn't prevented the state from being one of the biggest economies in the world and attracting entrepreneurs and businesses for decades,” said Molly Turner, who studies the interface of technology, urban policy and economic development at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"taxes\"]“I think it's important for us to distinguish between the executives of these companies moving out of state versus the employees and the offices,” Turner said, noting that Elon Musk and Oracle’s Larry Ellison, who are both among the wealthiest people in the world, did very well in California and are now leaving for places with lower income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt California is disproportionately reliant on the top 1% of income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just that 1% is responsible for generating over 45% of all the personal income tax revenue,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance, noting it “comes from things like capital gains and stock options and other income sources that are reliant on the stock market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Ellison, the world’s fifth wealthiest person according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, understandably don’t like California’s progressive tax structure. But as the recent initial public offerings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/business/dealbook/airbnb-ipo-chesky.html\">Airbnb\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/technology/doordash-ipo-stock.html\">DoorDash\u003c/a> show, the state is always going to benefit from dynamic companies who make it their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's always going to be activity that's going to be generated from companies going public, that's like seismic activity in California,” Palmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer also said it’s very difficult to evaluate the overall impact that the departure of major companies like Oracle and HP will have on California’s bottom line. But he says it by no means tells the entire story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other side of the coin is we are seeing corporations and entities in California that are continuing to grow, continuing to hire, continuing to expand, continuing to go public and generate revenue as well,” Palmer said. Still he says, “We want to retain as many of those individuals here as we possibly can and to continue to create the environment where we can see more of these types of activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to taxes, some businesses howl at laws like \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">Assembly Bill 5\u003c/a>, directed at companies like Lyft and Uber, as well as a recent one signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom requiring specific levels of diversity on corporate boards.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Molly Turner, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business\"]'I think folks have been complaining about California's hostile business environment for decades, and that certainly hasn't prevented the state from being one of the biggest economies in the world and attracting entrepreneurs and businesses for decades.'[/pullquote]“It's not that companies don't want to diversify. They do. But they don't like government telling them to do it and how to do it, you know, that sort of intrusion,” said Wunderman of the Bay Area Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way UC Berkeley’s Turner sees it, California’s biggest problem isn’t taxes or regulation, but rather the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's really the Achilles' heel of this state. We can't continue to build a booming economy without providing enough affordable housing for everybody here,” Turner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent data from the state Department of Finance shows that despite the pandemic and a paltry rate of population growth, year-to-date home prices are up more than 8%, with a median home price, in October, of $711,300, close to a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says that with the demand for housing remaining so high, and the ongoing obstacles to building more of it, the exodus of some tech jobs isn’t all bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that some percentage of jobs are redistributed to other parts of the country, that may in fact make the Bay Area and the state slightly more accessible and affordable to more folks, which I think at the end of the day is good for our innovation economy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The departures of Oracle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Elon Musk from California have sounded the alarm among some business observers in the state. Others, though, say it's hardly the end of the world.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1608665249,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1092},"headData":{"title":"Tech Firms and Titans Leave California for Texas. Does It Matter? | KQED","description":"The departures of Oracle, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Elon Musk from California have sounded the alarm among some business observers in the state. Others, though, say it's hardly the end of the world.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11851866 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11851866","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/12/22/very-troubling-what-the-departure-of-some-big-tech-firms-means-for-californias-business-horizon/","disqusTitle":"Tech Firms and Titans Leave California for Texas. Does It Matter?","path":"/news/11851866/very-troubling-what-the-departure-of-some-big-tech-firms-means-for-californias-business-horizon","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/oracle-lured-to-texas-by-lower-payrolls-and-labor-pool\">recent news\u003c/a> that Oracle, the second largest software maker in the world, plans to move its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin has resurrected familiar headlines suggesting that California is finally going to pay for its so-called hostility to business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/12/01/silicon-valley-exodus-hewlett-packard-enterprise-moving-from-san-jose-to-houston/\">recent announcement\u003c/a> by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, another Silicon Valley marquee company, to move its headquarters to Texas, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-critical-of-california-leaves-the-state-and-moves-to-texas\">Tesla founder Elon Musk's exodus\u003c/a> to the Lone Star State, Oracle’s decision has shaken some Bay Area business leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The regulatory scheme is really tough to work through. Everything takes much longer, costs more money.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it's very troubling news because it's not unexpected,” said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a business and civic leadership group. “We've been hearing from a lot of companies, from individuals who are talking about this, and it's been on the agenda for a while now, even pre-pandemic. But I think the pandemic really expedited a lot of organizations thinking about their future strategy and remote work. And the wildfires didn't help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in San Francisco, the Bay Area Council advocates for policies that make the region hospitable to businesses and its workforce, but is also mindful of regional politics, which lean heavily Democratic and progressive. The council often supports taxes to improve infrastructure and transit, and it also endorsed Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012 sales and income tax increase measure aimed especially at high-income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wunderman says too many politicians, especially in Sacramento, are not in touch with the needs of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we see is numerous pieces of legislation that sort of further restrict businesses’ ability to function the way business would prefer to function,” he said. “The regulatory scheme is really tough to work through. Everything takes much longer, costs more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone agrees that recent high-profile corporate departures signal a kind of comeuppance for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think folks have been complaining about California's hostile business environment for decades, and that certainly hasn't prevented the state from being one of the biggest economies in the world and attracting entrepreneurs and businesses for decades,” said Molly Turner, who studies the interface of technology, urban policy and economic development at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"taxes"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think it's important for us to distinguish between the executives of these companies moving out of state versus the employees and the offices,” Turner said, noting that Elon Musk and Oracle’s Larry Ellison, who are both among the wealthiest people in the world, did very well in California and are now leaving for places with lower income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no doubt California is disproportionately reliant on the top 1% of income earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just that 1% is responsible for generating over 45% of all the personal income tax revenue,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance, noting it “comes from things like capital gains and stock options and other income sources that are reliant on the stock market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Ellison, the world’s fifth wealthiest person according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, understandably don’t like California’s progressive tax structure. But as the recent initial public offerings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/business/dealbook/airbnb-ipo-chesky.html\">Airbnb\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/technology/doordash-ipo-stock.html\">DoorDash\u003c/a> show, the state is always going to benefit from dynamic companies who make it their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's always going to be activity that's going to be generated from companies going public, that's like seismic activity in California,” Palmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer also said it’s very difficult to evaluate the overall impact that the departure of major companies like Oracle and HP will have on California’s bottom line. But he says it by no means tells the entire story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other side of the coin is we are seeing corporations and entities in California that are continuing to grow, continuing to hire, continuing to expand, continuing to go public and generate revenue as well,” Palmer said. Still he says, “We want to retain as many of those individuals here as we possibly can and to continue to create the environment where we can see more of these types of activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to taxes, some businesses howl at laws like \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">Assembly Bill 5\u003c/a>, directed at companies like Lyft and Uber, as well as a recent one signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom requiring specific levels of diversity on corporate boards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think folks have been complaining about California's hostile business environment for decades, and that certainly hasn't prevented the state from being one of the biggest economies in the world and attracting entrepreneurs and businesses for decades.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Molly Turner, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It's not that companies don't want to diversify. They do. But they don't like government telling them to do it and how to do it, you know, that sort of intrusion,” said Wunderman of the Bay Area Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way UC Berkeley’s Turner sees it, California’s biggest problem isn’t taxes or regulation, but rather the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's really the Achilles' heel of this state. We can't continue to build a booming economy without providing enough affordable housing for everybody here,” Turner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent data from the state Department of Finance shows that despite the pandemic and a paltry rate of population growth, year-to-date home prices are up more than 8%, with a median home price, in October, of $711,300, close to a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner says that with the demand for housing remaining so high, and the ongoing obstacles to building more of it, the exodus of some tech jobs isn’t all bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that some percentage of jobs are redistributed to other parts of the country, that may in fact make the Bay Area and the state slightly more accessible and affordable to more folks, which I think at the end of the day is good for our innovation economy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11851866/very-troubling-what-the-departure-of-some-big-tech-firms-means-for-californias-business-horizon","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28956","news_285","news_17602","news_423","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11852346","label":"news"},"news_11145396":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11145396","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11145396","score":null,"sort":[1477428600000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"proposition-55-may-be-good-politics-but-is-it-good-policy","title":"Proposition 55 May Be Good Politics, But Is It Good Policy?","publishDate":1477428600,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Should rich Californians pay higher state income taxes to fund schools, health care for the poor and other programs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that question sounds familiar, it’s because voters faced the same choice four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said yes in 2012, during the state's budget crisis. Now, with the budget much healthier, the question is whether to extend taxes that supporters, including Gov. Jerry Brown, vowed would be \"temporary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289953796\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said that May: “I’m linking the serious budget reductions -- real, increased austerity -- with a plea to the voters: Please increase taxes temporarily on the most affluent and everyone else with a quarter of a cent sales tax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He made that statement at a time when the state faced a $16 billion budget deficit. Brown promised Proposition 30 would balance the state budget and avoid even deeper cuts to schools. It passed with 55 percent of the vote. And it did balance the budget -- for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But with schools and other programs crippled from years of cuts, the governor and legislative Democrats increased spending every year since. The state’s general fund is now more than $25 billion larger. And because of all that new spending, Proposition 30’s expiration could create a new deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[StateSpending]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us to Proposition 55. The proposal allows the sales tax increase to sunset at the end of this year but would extend the income tax hikes through 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11145398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11145398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-800x450.png\" alt=\"Source: California Legislative Analyst’s Office\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-520x292.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2.png 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We can’t afford to go back to the days of massive teacher layoffs, larger class sizes and cuts to programs like art and music,” Eric Heins, with the California Teachers Association, said as supporters launched their campaign earlier this year at a Sacramento middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This initiative simply asks those that earn the most in our state -- the wealthiest 2 percent -- to continue paying a little bit more for a little while longer,” added Laphonza Butler with the Service Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">That \"little while longer\" is actually 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“On a budgetary basis, this is terrible policy,” says Mike Genest, the top budget aide to former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s because income tax revenues from the wealthy soar in boom times but plummet in recessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This up-and-down cycle of our California budget, where it's feast or famine, is unhealthy for the state; it’s bad for the programs that rely on the budget,” says Genest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In addition to the usual support from labor and progressive groups, the measure is also backed by doctors and hospitals because it steers some of the money to Medi-Cal, California’s health care program for the poor. Anthony Wright, with the advocacy group Health Access, says state programs aren’t even back to pre-recession funding levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"HpD0mJosEcsvwTcMlLCYXAbo0X8PZvNW\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the idea that then we would say, we’re going to give a tax cut to the top 1 percent and make additional cuts on top of that, seems to us disastrous,” says Wright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">There's another big difference between Propositions 30 and 55: The governor has stayed studiously neutral this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The California Chamber of Commerce, which was neutral on Proposition 30, now opposes Proposition 55.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There was clearly a deficit (in 2012), and there was a need,” chamber president Allan Zaremberg said earlier this year. “Now, the question is, is now the right time -- after we sold that to the voters with a temporary increase -- that we should go out there and virtually make it permanent?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Yet the chamber has done nothing to fight the measure, nor have other critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps that's because while it’s debatable whether taxing the rich in California is good budget policy, there's little doubt it's good politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Should rich Californians pay higher state income taxes to fund schools, health care and other programs? Voters said yes four years ago. Now, with the budget healthier, the question is whether to extend the taxes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1477438653,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":729},"headData":{"title":"Proposition 55 May Be Good Politics, But Is It Good Policy? | KQED","description":"Should rich Californians pay higher state income taxes to fund schools, health care and other programs? Voters said yes four years ago. Now, with the budget healthier, the question is whether to extend the taxes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11145396 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11145396","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/25/proposition-55-may-be-good-politics-but-is-it-good-policy/","disqusTitle":"Proposition 55 May Be Good Politics, But Is It Good Policy?","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/about/bios/ben-adler/\">Ben Adler\u003c/a> \u003cbr> \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11145396/proposition-55-may-be-good-politics-but-is-it-good-policy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Should rich Californians pay higher state income taxes to fund schools, health care for the poor and other programs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that question sounds familiar, it’s because voters faced the same choice four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said yes in 2012, during the state's budget crisis. Now, with the budget much healthier, the question is whether to extend taxes that supporters, including Gov. Jerry Brown, vowed would be \"temporary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289953796&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289953796'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said that May: “I’m linking the serious budget reductions -- real, increased austerity -- with a plea to the voters: Please increase taxes temporarily on the most affluent and everyone else with a quarter of a cent sales tax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">He made that statement at a time when the state faced a $16 billion budget deficit. Brown promised Proposition 30 would balance the state budget and avoid even deeper cuts to schools. It passed with 55 percent of the vote. And it did balance the budget -- for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">But with schools and other programs crippled from years of cuts, the governor and legislative Democrats increased spending every year since. The state’s general fund is now more than $25 billion larger. And because of all that new spending, Proposition 30’s expiration could create a new deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[StateSpending]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings us to Proposition 55. The proposal allows the sales tax increase to sunset at the end of this year but would extend the income tax hikes through 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11145398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11145398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-800x450.png\" alt=\"Source: California Legislative Analyst’s Office\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2-520x292.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/prop55-fig2.png 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“We can’t afford to go back to the days of massive teacher layoffs, larger class sizes and cuts to programs like art and music,” Eric Heins, with the California Teachers Association, said as supporters launched their campaign earlier this year at a Sacramento middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This initiative simply asks those that earn the most in our state -- the wealthiest 2 percent -- to continue paying a little bit more for a little while longer,” added Laphonza Butler with the Service Employees International Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">That \"little while longer\" is actually 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“On a budgetary basis, this is terrible policy,” says Mike Genest, the top budget aide to former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s because income tax revenues from the wealthy soar in boom times but plummet in recessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“This up-and-down cycle of our California budget, where it's feast or famine, is unhealthy for the state; it’s bad for the programs that rely on the budget,” says Genest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">In addition to the usual support from labor and progressive groups, the measure is also backed by doctors and hospitals because it steers some of the money to Medi-Cal, California’s health care program for the poor. Anthony Wright, with the advocacy group Health Access, says state programs aren’t even back to pre-recession funding levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the idea that then we would say, we’re going to give a tax cut to the top 1 percent and make additional cuts on top of that, seems to us disastrous,” says Wright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">There's another big difference between Propositions 30 and 55: The governor has stayed studiously neutral this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">The California Chamber of Commerce, which was neutral on Proposition 30, now opposes Proposition 55.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">“There was clearly a deficit (in 2012), and there was a need,” chamber president Allan Zaremberg said earlier this year. “Now, the question is, is now the right time -- after we sold that to the voters with a temporary increase -- that we should go out there and virtually make it permanent?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Yet the chamber has done nothing to fight the measure, nor have other critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps that's because while it’s debatable whether taxing the rich in California is good budget policy, there's little doubt it's good politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11145396/proposition-55-may-be-good-politics-but-is-it-good-policy","authors":["byline_news_11145396"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_17602","news_19915","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11145400","label":"news_72"},"news_10830052":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10830052","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10830052","score":null,"sort":[1452632442000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-tax-extension-proposals-take-shape-with-input-from-governor","title":"California Tax Extension Proposals Take Shape -- With Input From Governor","publishDate":1452632442,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Election 2016 | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It's looking like voters will have one chance to extend income taxes on California's wealthiest residents this fall -- and supporters of the ballot measure are hoping their latest version will appease the state's most powerful voter: Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A compromise proposed ballot measure authored by unions and other groups representing teachers, the health care industry and advocates for kids was \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0115%20%28Temporary%20Tax%20Increase%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">updated Monday with new language\u003c/a> aimed at appeasing a skeptical Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the governor \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-brown-initiatives-20160108-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">criticized a provision in the original initiative \u003c/a>that would have exempted any additional state revenue raised by the ballot measure from being earmarked for the state's rainy day fund (Brown has worked hard to grow the state's reserves since taking office five years ago and has generally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/browns-budget-mantra-caution\" target=\"_blank\">pushed a message of fiscal restraint, including in last week's budget proposal\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"4zA8jWfhsWlLxBbcNRDHlXiZA7phvB8q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those tax measures don't incorporate what people said they wanted \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_26866537/california-propositions-1-and-2-appear-be-sailing\" target=\"_blank\">by an overwhelming supermajority,\u003c/a>” Brown said, calling that omission \"a fatal flaw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this week, the measure's backers -- including the powerful California Teachers Association and the California Hospital Association -- removed that exemption and made other tweaks they hope will satisfy critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article43012443.html\" target=\"_blank\">grew out of competing proposals\u003c/a> authored by the CTA and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article35998542.html\" target=\"_blank\">the health care and children's groups\u003c/a>, respectively. The compromise measure seeks to extend through 2030 an increase in personal income taxes on couples who make more than $500,000 a year. Those increases were originally instated by 2012's Prop. 30, which also raised sales taxes in the state through the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown championed Prop. 30's temporary tax increases -- the income tax increases were set to expire in 2018 -- as a way to stabilize California's budget at a time of deep cuts. But he promised from the beginning that the increases would be temporary. So even with the tweaks, it's an open question whether the governor will actually support the compromise ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the tax extensions now have several months to collect the 585,407 signatures needed to place the measure before voters in November. It's likely to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">a crowded ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Unions and health care groups tweak ballot measure to extend income taxes in hopes of wooing Gov. Jerry Brown. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1453921289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":375},"headData":{"title":"California Tax Extension Proposals Take Shape -- With Input From Governor | KQED","description":"Unions and health care groups tweak ballot measure to extend income taxes in hopes of wooing Gov. Jerry Brown. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10830052 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10830052","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/12/california-tax-extension-proposals-take-shape-with-input-from-governor/","disqusTitle":"California Tax Extension Proposals Take Shape -- With Input From Governor","nprStoryId":"462824443","path":"/news/10830052/california-tax-extension-proposals-take-shape-with-input-from-governor","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's looking like voters will have one chance to extend income taxes on California's wealthiest residents this fall -- and supporters of the ballot measure are hoping their latest version will appease the state's most powerful voter: Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A compromise proposed ballot measure authored by unions and other groups representing teachers, the health care industry and advocates for kids was \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0115%20%28Temporary%20Tax%20Increase%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">updated Monday with new language\u003c/a> aimed at appeasing a skeptical Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the governor \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-brown-initiatives-20160108-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">criticized a provision in the original initiative \u003c/a>that would have exempted any additional state revenue raised by the ballot measure from being earmarked for the state's rainy day fund (Brown has worked hard to grow the state's reserves since taking office five years ago and has generally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/browns-budget-mantra-caution\" target=\"_blank\">pushed a message of fiscal restraint, including in last week's budget proposal\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those tax measures don't incorporate what people said they wanted \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_26866537/california-propositions-1-and-2-appear-be-sailing\" target=\"_blank\">by an overwhelming supermajority,\u003c/a>” Brown said, calling that omission \"a fatal flaw.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So this week, the measure's backers -- including the powerful California Teachers Association and the California Hospital Association -- removed that exemption and made other tweaks they hope will satisfy critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article43012443.html\" target=\"_blank\">grew out of competing proposals\u003c/a> authored by the CTA and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article35998542.html\" target=\"_blank\">the health care and children's groups\u003c/a>, respectively. The compromise measure seeks to extend through 2030 an increase in personal income taxes on couples who make more than $500,000 a year. Those increases were originally instated by 2012's Prop. 30, which also raised sales taxes in the state through the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown championed Prop. 30's temporary tax increases -- the income tax increases were set to expire in 2018 -- as a way to stabilize California's budget at a time of deep cuts. But he promised from the beginning that the increases would be temporary. So even with the tweaks, it's an open question whether the governor will actually support the compromise ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the tax extensions now have several months to collect the 585,407 signatures needed to place the measure before voters in November. It's likely to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/12-might-california-low-voter-turnout-spark-2016-initiative-frenzy/\" target=\"_blank\">a crowded ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10830052/california-tax-extension-proposals-take-shape-with-input-from-governor","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18286","news_30","news_17602","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10830130","label":"news_72"},"news_10418850":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10418850","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10418850","score":null,"sort":[1422549427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"9-stories-you-should-know-about-thursday-jan-29","title":"9 Stories You Should Know About: Thursday, Jan. 29","publishDate":1422549427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">The weather\u003c/a>: Dry and mostly sunny Thursday, with highs ranging from the high 50s on the North Bay coast to about 70 in Santa Cruz. The next chance of rain: late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Agents search former CPUC chief's home in PG&E judge-shopping case\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>State investigators seized computers and other items from the homes of former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and an ousted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive at the heart of the judge-shopping controversy that has embroiled the regulatory agency for months, The Chronicle has learned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-search-Michael-Peevey-s-home-in-PG-E-6047151.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crowd-sourced data show California cops involved in 156 deaths last year\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED's Lowdown)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Analysis of California numbers collected on the site \u003ca href=\"http://www.killedbypolice.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Killed by Police\u003c/a> shows 156 officer-related fatalities in 2014.. Of these, there were 144 male victims and 12 female. Of the 67 incidents in which race information was reported, there were 34 Latino, 14 black, 15 white and four Asian victims. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/01/28/crowd-sourced-data-show-more-than150-killings-by-california-police-last-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Employment in California's oil towns suffers as prices plunge\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Los Angeles Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many Californians cheer the rapid fall of gasoline prices. But for those who rely on the oil industry for a paycheck, the last few months have been nerve-wracking. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-oil-jobs-20150128-story.html?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Suspicious package turns out to be suitcase full of body parts\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police say they've identified a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Person-of-interest-ID-d-in-S-F-body-parts-case-6048364.php\" target=\"_blank\">person of interest\u003c/a>\" in a case that began with a call of a suspicious package in the mid-Market area about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found a roller-type suitcase amid garbage and debris on 11th Street between Market and Mission streets. It contained “dismembered body parts of a human being,” said police spokeswoman Officer Grace Gatpandan. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Body-parts-in-suitcase-found-by-S-F-police-in-6047152.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Poll shows voters willing to extend California's Prop. 30 taxes\u003c/strong> (\u003cem>KQED Faultlines)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Call it the first hint of the debate to come over taxes, perhaps as soon as California’s next statewide ballot: A new poll finds a majority of likely voters are willing to extend the life of Gov. Jerry Brown’s temporary taxes from 2012. The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California finds 52 percent of likely voters support the continuation of the taxes enacted by Proposition 30, taxes that otherwise begin to wind down between 2016 and 2018. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bill would ban 'trespassing' by drones\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Business Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Santa Barbara lawmaker wants to make it illegal for individuals to fly drones over private property without the owner's permission. State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson has just introduced SB 142, which would prohibit the unauthorized use of unmanned aerial vehicles in airspace directly over private property. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/01/california-legislator-seeks-to-ban-trespassing-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Navy investigates fighter pilot who buzzed Cal to say hello to his brother\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Berkeleyside)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fighter jet that buzzed Berkeley on Tuesday, sending both shock waves and excitement through the community, was reportedly flown by the brother of a Cal grad student. A man posting as “TheCulprit” on Berkeleyside said the pilot was his brother, writing, “It was an awesome personal air show.” Berkeleyside has confirmed that the commenter attends UC Berkeley, and that his brother is a pilot with the Navy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/28/fighter-jet-over-berkeley-was-nod-to-cal-grad-student-navy-is-investigating/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Victim's family lashes out at hit-and-run suspect during court hearing\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A family's grief burst in the middle of a packed courtroom as they lashed out at one of the men charged in a deadly street race during his arraignment Wednesday. Manuel Maldonado-Avalos, 23, is charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in connection with a Monday incident that killed Kiran Pabla, 24. As the short hearing concluded, one of Pabla's brothers shouted at the defendant from the back of the room, \"That guy killed my sister! You owe us an apology!\" while another yelled \"We need justice!\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27413061/san-jose-one-suspect-arraigned-alleged-street-race\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rare Sierra red fox spotted in Yosemite\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(National Park Service)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Park officials say they're \"excited to report the first confirmed sighting in the park of a rare Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) in nearly 100 years. Park wildlife biologists had gone on a five-day backcountry trip to the far northern part of the park to check on previously deployed motion-sensitive cameras. They documented a sighting of the fox on two separate instances within the park boundary. The Sierra Nevada red fox of California is one of the rarest mammals in North America, likely consisting of fewer than 50 individuals.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/rare-sierra-nevada-red-fox-spotted-in-yosemite-national-park.htm\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A rare Sierra Nevada red fox. Grisly find in downtown San Francisco. A bill to ban trespassing by drones. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1422572616,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":759},"headData":{"title":"9 Stories You Should Know About: Thursday, Jan. 29 | KQED","description":"A rare Sierra Nevada red fox. Grisly find in downtown San Francisco. A bill to ban trespassing by drones. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10418850 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10418850","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/29/9-stories-you-should-know-about-thursday-jan-29/","disqusTitle":"9 Stories You Should Know About: Thursday, Jan. 29","path":"/news/10418850/9-stories-you-should-know-about-thursday-jan-29","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">The weather\u003c/a>: Dry and mostly sunny Thursday, with highs ranging from the high 50s on the North Bay coast to about 70 in Santa Cruz. The next chance of rain: late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Agents search former CPUC chief's home in PG&E judge-shopping case\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>State investigators seized computers and other items from the homes of former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and an ousted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive at the heart of the judge-shopping controversy that has embroiled the regulatory agency for months, The Chronicle has learned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-search-Michael-Peevey-s-home-in-PG-E-6047151.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crowd-sourced data show California cops involved in 156 deaths last year\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED's Lowdown)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Analysis of California numbers collected on the site \u003ca href=\"http://www.killedbypolice.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Killed by Police\u003c/a> shows 156 officer-related fatalities in 2014.. Of these, there were 144 male victims and 12 female. Of the 67 incidents in which race information was reported, there were 34 Latino, 14 black, 15 white and four Asian victims. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/01/28/crowd-sourced-data-show-more-than150-killings-by-california-police-last-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Employment in California's oil towns suffers as prices plunge\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Los Angeles Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many Californians cheer the rapid fall of gasoline prices. But for those who rely on the oil industry for a paycheck, the last few months have been nerve-wracking. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-oil-jobs-20150128-story.html?track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Suspicious package turns out to be suitcase full of body parts\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police say they've identified a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Person-of-interest-ID-d-in-S-F-body-parts-case-6048364.php\" target=\"_blank\">person of interest\u003c/a>\" in a case that began with a call of a suspicious package in the mid-Market area about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found a roller-type suitcase amid garbage and debris on 11th Street between Market and Mission streets. It contained “dismembered body parts of a human being,” said police spokeswoman Officer Grace Gatpandan. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Body-parts-in-suitcase-found-by-S-F-police-in-6047152.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Poll shows voters willing to extend California's Prop. 30 taxes\u003c/strong> (\u003cem>KQED Faultlines)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Call it the first hint of the debate to come over taxes, perhaps as soon as California’s next statewide ballot: A new poll finds a majority of likely voters are willing to extend the life of Gov. Jerry Brown’s temporary taxes from 2012. The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California finds 52 percent of likely voters support the continuation of the taxes enacted by Proposition 30, taxes that otherwise begin to wind down between 2016 and 2018. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bill would ban 'trespassing' by drones\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Business Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Santa Barbara lawmaker wants to make it illegal for individuals to fly drones over private property without the owner's permission. State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson has just introduced SB 142, which would prohibit the unauthorized use of unmanned aerial vehicles in airspace directly over private property. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/01/california-legislator-seeks-to-ban-trespassing-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Navy investigates fighter pilot who buzzed Cal to say hello to his brother\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Berkeleyside)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fighter jet that buzzed Berkeley on Tuesday, sending both shock waves and excitement through the community, was reportedly flown by the brother of a Cal grad student. A man posting as “TheCulprit” on Berkeleyside said the pilot was his brother, writing, “It was an awesome personal air show.” Berkeleyside has confirmed that the commenter attends UC Berkeley, and that his brother is a pilot with the Navy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/01/28/fighter-jet-over-berkeley-was-nod-to-cal-grad-student-navy-is-investigating/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Victim's family lashes out at hit-and-run suspect during court hearing\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A family's grief burst in the middle of a packed courtroom as they lashed out at one of the men charged in a deadly street race during his arraignment Wednesday. Manuel Maldonado-Avalos, 23, is charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in connection with a Monday incident that killed Kiran Pabla, 24. As the short hearing concluded, one of Pabla's brothers shouted at the defendant from the back of the room, \"That guy killed my sister! You owe us an apology!\" while another yelled \"We need justice!\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27413061/san-jose-one-suspect-arraigned-alleged-street-race\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rare Sierra red fox spotted in Yosemite\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(National Park Service)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Park officials say they're \"excited to report the first confirmed sighting in the park of a rare Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) in nearly 100 years. Park wildlife biologists had gone on a five-day backcountry trip to the far northern part of the park to check on previously deployed motion-sensitive cameras. They documented a sighting of the fox on two separate instances within the park boundary. The Sierra Nevada red fox of California is one of the rarest mammals in North America, likely consisting of fewer than 50 individuals.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/rare-sierra-nevada-red-fox-spotted-in-yosemite-national-park.htm\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10418850/9-stories-you-should-know-about-thursday-jan-29","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_651","news_140","news_17602","news_17603"],"featImg":"news_10418963","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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