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Billions from corporations, Big Tech and AI executives are flowing into California elections. TechEquity Action and the Social Movement Support Lab each developed tools to help voters track the spending.

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L.A.'s "compassionate" policy of allowing stationary tents on sidewalks is anything but, writes San Quinones. It has created swamps of exploitation, where drug dealers can hide their business and chain their customers to the products they sell.

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Billionaire-backed Proposition 42 is one of the most dishonest, flagrant abuses of the citizen-initiative process that California has ever seen.

And it has the endorsement of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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In San Francisco, Proposition G would give Sunset Dunes Park back to cars during the week. Voters would strike a blow for smart traffic policy by rejecting it.

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Billboards like this hang over Altadena's main thoroughfares, advertising Southern California Edison's quick-payout program for Eaton fire survivors that avoids lawsuits. How's that program going?

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Steve Hilton's message to voters seems to be: You're fed up with Democrats, so try something different. There's no evidence that's working, writes @marielgarzaGS.

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Our friends at @GoldenStateOrg have shared how their staff and contributors filled out their ballots. And now we're sharing it with you. https://t.co/gYTNWn3Wg0

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Fourteen propositions is a lot. So Golden State staff and contributors agreed to share their picks for all statewide measures on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Thanks to Robin Epley, Elizabeth Chou, Jon Fleischman, Josh Gohlke, Dan Morain and Elmira Muradkhanyan!

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A state income tax increase on high earners will expire in 2031 unless voters pass Prop. 3. Mariel Garza says whether to tax billionaire wealth with Prop. 40 is a tough call, but preventing a tax cut for the top 2 percent of incomes isn't.

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Proposition 43 would give a small fraction of the voters in a community veto power when it comes to special taxes placed on the ballot though citizen initiatives. Thats undemocratic, says @marielgarzaGS.

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Why are L.A. County voters deciding how to negotiate firefighter and other first responder salaries on Nov. 3? The reason relates to a strike 50 years ago.

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Dan Morain spent time with Xavier Becerra's parents for a Sacramento Bee column he wrote in 2015. Steve Hilton's notion, Morain says, that Becerra is lying about his father being an immigrant "is itself a lie. Becerra’s story has not changed."

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Bernie Sanders gave plenty of good reasons to fight oligarchy at a rally in L.A. Monday night. But do those reasons justify passing Proposition 40, a billionaire wealth tax with glaring flaws?

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Angelenos already voted for a county Ethics Commission and funding for alternatives to incarceration. But significant drafting and filing blunders could undo those ballot measures without Measure E's clean-up crew.

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Tucked inside L.A. city Measure EE is a provision slashing the number of required weekly council meetings from three to one, reducing the opportunities for the public to address their elected representatives.

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California billionaires can certainly afford to pay more in taxes. But Proposition 40's one-time wealth tax is so deeply flawed that it makes you wonder about the true intention of its sponsors, writes Jon Healey.

LINK: https://t.co/kY0hE7MqAS

[Jon Regardie @JonRegardie]

@hearinladotcom @nithyavraman @KarenBassLA Not sure about a study, and not quite the Q you asked, but I did a piece for @GoldenStateOrg looking at how frequently the top spender in a race loses. California has a long track record of this, and in LA city in 2022, 6 lower-spending candidates won. https://t.co/UQXDeYgulQ

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"The world is riddled with airport projects in big cities gone wrong.... So perhaps Angelenos can take some comfort in knowing that the long-delayed LAX people mover isn’t the measure of municipal incompetence some are making it out to be."

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