California voters reject efforts to repeal gas tax and rent-control limitations

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

California voters reject efforts to repeal gas tax and rent-control limitations

By Scott Wilson
November 7 at 3:09 PM

California voters defeated a pair of statewide ballot initiatives Tuesday to repeal a year-old gas tax increase and to allow cities and counties to expand rent control, initiatives designed to address two of the state’s most pressing problems.

The defeat of Proposition 6, which would have nullified a 12-cent-per-gallon tax increase that legislators passed in 2017, was the more surprising loss. The measure had served as a symbol of high-tax California and helped energize a state Republican Party that has faded as a political force over the past two decades.

The proposition was rejected by 55 percent of voters, after polls showed it as too close to call heading into Election Day. The tax increase is projected to raise $52 billion over the next decade for roads, highways and bridges, projects the proposition’s opponents said would be in jeopardy if voters repealed it.

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The rent-control measure — Proposition 10 — appeared doomed heading into Tuesday’s election, and nearly 62 percent of voters opposed it. The initiative would have effectively repealed a 1995 law that limits local jurisdictions’ ability to impose rent control on single-family homes and to set the rent once an apartment becomes vacant.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/california-voters-reject-efforts-to-repeal-gas-tax-and-rent-control-limitations/2018/11/07/87addb58-e297-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html

[David__77]

1. Boo on 10 being defeated.

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