This year California voters will choose a new governor, fill other statewide offices, elect 100 state legislators and 52 members of Congress and weigh an array of knotty ballot measures.
Meanwhile, officials in the state’s largest urban centers, Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, will test voters’ appetite for raising sales tax rates — already among the nation’s highest, — to levels never before seen in California.
Los Angeles officials are asking voters in the June primary election to add another half percentage point to rates that already top 10% in most of the county’s cities, raising money to offset reductions in federal health care spending…