Perla was born and raised in Orange County, went to UC Berkeley for her Bachelors, and worked in Bakersfield for her first job as a multimedia journalist.
Every time you go out to lunch, buy an item of clothing, or get a new car, you’re charged a sales tax. Each city has a different sales tax, but the minimum is 7.75% across the county. Measure G wants to raise that to 8.25. Haney Hong at the San Diego Taxpayers Association is against it.“It’s a very long document with very specific projects where all the money’s supposed to go,” Hong said.A majority of the money would go to improving public transportation.
“Why do we have a SANDAG staff and board? Why do we have other people that are supposed to make these decisions,” Hong said.Carolina Martinez works with the environmental health coalition, one of many climate and labor groups that campaigned to put Measure G on the ballot. She says the projects under Measure G were chosen by their own team of experts and later by San Diegans.“Over 100,000 citizens in San Diego County said we need this urgently.
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