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Urgent: Call the Capitol NOW!

The Legislature is trying to stop our Save Prop. 13 initiative. NO on SB 423. Call today!

Late Tuesday night, the Legislature gutted a bill about inmate firefighters and amended it into a bill designed to DESTROY the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Prop 13.

Senate Bill 423 MUST BE STOPPED!

Here’s what SB 423 does: it makes tax relief for fire victims in the Pacific Palisades CONDITIONAL on our Save Prop. 13 initiative not qualifying for the ballot!

Here’s the excerpt from the bill showing that relief for Palisades fire victims from L.A.’s real estate transfer tax “shall not become operative” if our Save Prop. 13 ballot measure (Initiative 25-0006A1 or earlier versions) goes forward:

SB 423 is also a giveaway to Los Angeles developers, and the Legislature’s plan seems to be to try to stop our initiative by coercing or enticing those potential supporters to oppose our initiative and starve it of campaign funds.

We can’t let this happen. Our initiative is critically important to protecting Proposition 13. Here’s what it does:

Requires a two-thirds vote to pass all local special taxes, no exceptions
Bans and repeals transfer taxes (sales taxes on real estate) higher than 0.11 percent

These are provisions that were in Proposition 13 but have been weakened by court-created loopholes. The Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13 closes those loopholes and will save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Please call your representatives in the state Assembly and Senate TODAY and urge them to VOTE NO on SB 423. You can look up their names and contact information at findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov.

And if you possibly can, please strengthen this campaign to Save Prop. 13 with a donation in any amount to the Protect Prop. 13 committee. Click here to contribute.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Jon Coupal

President, HJTA

P.S. Please call the Capitol TODAY, the vote could happen on Friday. Look up the names and contact information of your representatives at findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov and urge them to vote NO on SB 423. Thank you!!

TAKE ACTION NOW

Tell your representatives that you oppose SB 423, which attacks your Proposition 13 protections!

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Donate to our effort to get this important Prop. 13 issue on the ballot!

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