The measure, Proposition HHH, is designed to finance 8,000 to 10,000 units over 10 years for chronically homeless people, including veterans, seniors and foster youth.
The Arizona group, Americans for Responsible Leadership, gave the money to a political action committee that is opposing Proposition 30, a tax measure to finance schools that is backed by Gov. Jerry Brown, and supporting Proposition 32, which would curb the influence of labor unions.
But the governor's two most daring gambits involve annoying his own party.The first is backing Proposition 71, which raises $3 billion to finance stem-cell research, which is anathema to social conservatives.
The $11 million went to a conservative political committee that is working to defeat one ballot proposition (a temporary tax increase to finance public education, supported by Gov. Jerry Brown) and pass another (a measure that would curb the ability of labor unions to donate to political campaigns).
The Superintendent now finds himself in the unfortunate position of being unable to finance the commission's work unless either Proposition 30 or Proposition 38 passes".
This kind of borrowing has been going on for years, particularly in California, where the tax revolt that began with Proposition 13 in 1978 has made it harder and harder to finance education or other local government services.
Never mind that California's Proposition 13 crippled municipalities' abilities to raise property taxes and the state's capacity to raise income to finance essential public services.
Voters instinctively support Proposition 45 once they learn that health insurance companies oppose it with tens of millions of dollars to finance television advertisements, Court said.
Appropriate money to finance them.
To finance the restoration.
