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2016 Postmortem

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts) Wed Nov 7, 2012, 08:35 PM Nov 2012

Victory on Two Major California Propositions

Prop 30 which Gerry Brown wanted which increases taxes on millionaires passed 53.9% to 46.1%.

Prop 32 also known as California's "Citizens United" was voted down 56.1% to 43.9%.

As a bonus: California overwhelmingly voted to amend the "Three Strikes Law" to only cover serious or violent felonies and voted to tax out of state businesses for their local profits (oil companies in particular) with the money going towards clean energy.

http://www.smartvoter.org/2012/11/06/ca/state/prop/

MILLIONS were spent on the campaigns by the wealthy and they LOST AGAIN.

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