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    California Voters Show Disdain For High Gas Tax By Recalling Its Biggest Supporter

    California Voters Show Disdain For High Gas Tax By Recalling Its Biggest Supporter
    Jason Hopskins

    One of California’s most ardent gas tax supporters got the boot in a recall election, eliminating the Democratic supermajority in the state senate and demonstrating voters’ unhappiness with California’s costly gas tax.
    While all Americans are dealing with increasing gas prices, California residents are dealing with the highest rates in the country. AAA currently shows The Golden State paying an average of $3.73 per gallon, more than any other state. The rate is even higher when the state’s major cities are included. Like the rest of the U.S., California is facing higher prices because of a litany of geopolitical and national issues. However, pain at the pump is harsher because of a very unpopular gas tax passed by state legislators.
    Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a gas tax bill that was meant to raise funds for new road and bridge construction in April 2017. The law officially went into effect in November, charging an extra 12 cents per gallon and sending California drivers into a frenzy. A repeal campaign has been underway and it has claimed its first win.
    Josh Newman — a Democratic state senator from Orange County and a major supporter of the gas tax — was recalled Tuesday night and replaced with former Republican assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang. The vote was pretty overwhelming, with nearly two thirds of voters choosing to recall Newman. A last-minute endorsement from Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont did not appear to help his re-election efforts. Newman’s defeat was part of a wider GOP-led campaign to repeal the gas tax. The issue will likely be on the November ballot.
    Despite the overwhelming outcome, Newman has been reluctant to concede the race. Upon publication of this article, no mention of concession has appeared on Newman’s Twitter, Facebook or official website page. Derek Humphrey, a Newman spokesman, said the early numbers were “not what we were hoping for,” but stopped short of admitting defeat. Humphrey also termed the recall election “an undemocratic special interest power grab.”
    Newman’s defeat carries extra weight in that it ends the Democratic Party’s supermajority in the California state senate.

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/ca...sdain-gas-tax/

    Looks like California is slowly coming around to the bright side of the road
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    Cox is going to benefit from that gas tax. Plus he should use the fact that Newsome cheated on his old Lady with his best friends wife. Just think how much he will cheat the average Californians.
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    Cal better wake up. What was it around a week ago they passed you couldn't use more than I believe 50 gallons a day of water per person. In other words you have to decide to shower or wash clothes that day. Don't know when it becomes law but they will fine people in houses that go over pretty much take their land and make them go into the city to pay for rent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    Cal better wake up. What was it around a week ago they passed you couldn't use more than I believe 50 gallons a day of water per person. In other words you have to decide to shower or wash clothes that day. Don't know when it becomes law but they will fine people in houses that go over pretty much take their land and make them go into the city to pay for rent.
    instead of the USSR, they can now call themselves the USSC
    You can bet this law doesn't apply to the Gov or his higher-up flunkies
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    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol...htmlstory.html

    After two years in office, Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) was recalled Tuesday for his vote to increase the gas tax to repair the state’s woefully maintained streets and expand its inadequate transit systems.

    Political opportunism won over responsible governance.

    Republicans launched the recall campaign after Newman supported the gas tax increase in Senate Bill 1, which needed a two-thirds majority to pass. But Newman’s vote was pretext. Really, Republicans were trying to win back a seat that Newman narrowly won in 2016 and that was historically held by the GOP.


    The campaign worked. Newman is out and Republican former assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang, who lost the election in 2016, is in. The GOP got the do-over it wanted in a lower turnout primary election.


    The real concern is how this kind of craven political gamesmanship will play in November.


    Republicans hope to get a measure on the ballot to repeal the gas tax. While some of the zeal for repeal comes from anti-tax activists, the referendum is being driven and bankrolled by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and other GOP leaders, who are betting the gas tax measure will draw more Republicans to the polls in November and help protect GOP congressional seats in districts that are increasingly going blue.


    In the quest to win races, however, the GOP wants to trounce what was once a thoroughly Republican idea: that drivers should help pay for road repairs and transportation infrastructure with gas taxes.


    President Eisenhower signed the bill creating the Highway Trust Fund, which dedicated gas taxes (and other vehicle taxes) to transportation. President Reagan agreed to hike the federal gas tax, as did President George H.W. Bush.


    Even President Trump has said he’ll consider hiking the federal gas tax, which hasn’t been increased since 1993, to help fund transportation investments. In fact, Trump’s ballyhooed infrastructure plan would prioritize projects in “self-help” states and counties — that is, regions that have increased taxes to pay for transportation.


    So even as the Trump administration is encouraging states to raise their gas taxes to fund infrastructure, Republican leaders are trying to eliminate California’s fuel tax increase, and in the process make the state less competitive for federal transportation dollars.


    But who cares about potholes and safe roads, or new subways and bike lanes so people have alternatives to sitting in traffic? Republicans in California apparently want to win, no matter the cost.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol...htmlstory.html

    After two years in office, Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) was recalled Tuesday for his vote to increase the gas tax to repair the state’s woefully maintained streets and expand its inadequate transit systems.

    Political opportunism won over responsible governance.

    Republicans launched the recall campaign after Newman supported the gas tax increase in Senate Bill 1, which needed a two-thirds majority to pass. But Newman’s vote was pretext. Really, Republicans were trying to win back a seat that Newman narrowly won in 2016 and that was historically held by the GOP.


    The campaign worked. Newman is out and Republican former assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang, who lost the election in 2016, is in. The GOP got the do-over it wanted in a lower turnout primary election.


    The real concern is how this kind of craven political gamesmanship will play in November.


    Republicans hope to get a measure on the ballot to repeal the gas tax. While some of the zeal for repeal comes from anti-tax activists, the referendum is being driven and bankrolled by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and other GOP leaders, who are betting the gas tax measure will draw more Republicans to the polls in November and help protect GOP congressional seats in districts that are increasingly going blue.


    In the quest to win races, however, the GOP wants to trounce what was once a thoroughly Republican idea: that drivers should help pay for road repairs and transportation infrastructure with gas taxes.


    President Eisenhower signed the bill creating the Highway Trust Fund, which dedicated gas taxes (and other vehicle taxes) to transportation. President Reagan agreed to hike the federal gas tax, as did President George H.W. Bush.


    Even President Trump has said he’ll consider hiking the federal gas tax, which hasn’t been increased since 1993, to help fund transportation investments. In fact, Trump’s ballyhooed infrastructure plan would prioritize projects in “self-help” states and counties — that is, regions that have increased taxes to pay for transportation.


    So even as the Trump administration is encouraging states to raise their gas taxes to fund infrastructure, Republican leaders are trying to eliminate California’s fuel tax increase, and in the process make the state less competitive for federal transportation dollars.


    But who cares about potholes and safe roads, or new subways and bike lanes so people have alternatives to sitting in traffic? Republicans in California apparently want to win, no matter the cost.



    they had the resources to do that before they embraced free HC for all of the illegals. Now they are dirt poor and morally bankrupt
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