Tag Archives: california voters

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Small Town Manager, ridiculously overpaid bureaucratic

March 25, 2013
Mark Nuaima, a first-timer rooky town manager in Yucca Valley, has a salary higher than public officials are paid to manage the worlds 9th largest economy (California).  By comparison, Pennsylvania G...
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Yucca Valley Trumped the State on Compensation

March 24, 2013
The town council has sewn into the minds of residents an indelible impression of bewitching arrogance and small town elitism. While the State California Citizens Compensation Commission this week ess...
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Defeating a Sales Tax Measure

March 20, 2013
BACKGROUND Californians have been paying sales taxes since 1933 when the total tax rate was just 2.50%. Sales tax rates have been steadily increasing ever since, with combined state and local sales t...

What’s Prop 218 Say?

January 25, 2013
Proposition 218 Description: In November 1996, California voters passed Proposition 218, the “Right to Vote on Taxes Act”. This constitutional amendment protects taxpayers by limiting the methods by ...

Redistricting Committee Accepting Applications

December 4, 2009
In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 11, which establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission, a new independent commission for redrawing Assembly, Senate and Board of Equalization dist...