Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. Californians want to vote on Governor Brown’s tax measures, and they want to vote them down, a new poll shows. The poll by the respected Public Policy Institute of California showed that 62 percent of likely voters want Brown’s tax measures to be on the ballot, but only 46 percent said they would vote for them, while 48 percent said they would vote against them, the Chron and CoCo Times report. In other words, the poll provides a mixed bag for the governor. Californians agree with him — and not with Republicans — that the tax measures should be on the ballot, but they apparently will vote against them if they are.
2. California counties, meanwhile, could get a significant revenue boost under a bill that passed the state senate yesterday.
The bill by San Francisco Senator Mark Leno would allow counties to increase vehicle license fees with a two-thirds vote from county boards of supervisors and a simple majority vote of local residents, the SacBee reports. The state senate is expected to also take up additional legislation that would allow counties and school districts to more easily raise revenues on their own.