Monthly Archives: June 2012

Creating a New Center of Gravity with the Tax on the Top Initiative

On the heels of the tremendous momentum achieved by the Millionaires Tax coalition, an agreement with Governor Brown resulted in a merged revenue-generating measure.  In just four weeks California Calls and our partners collected thousands of signatures to help qualify the new measure. Union allies collected over 200,000 volunteer signatures. On May 9, more than 1,470,000…

Tipping the Scales for Progressive Tax Reform

Eight years ago, a state initiative that would have expanded health coverage to a million more Californians — Prop 72 — lost by a razor-thin margin of 180,426 votes out of over 12.6 million votes cast.  It was the closest margin in a state ballot battle in the past 16 years. A small enough margin…