[ptsal]

The judge gets it.

The judge said he'd hoped lawyers for Becerra and Allen could agree on a compromise, but since they couldn't he'll write a new title and summary himself.

"I think he has properly seen that the attorney general tried to intentionally mislead the voters of California because he's trying to prejudice their vote and keep increased taxes for California," Allen said after the hearing.

[ptsal]

The California Gas Tax....FYI

[House Atreides]

Hopefully this judge will be that rarest creature — an honest judge.

[bgill]

CA is going to need that every tax they can think up to pay for their sanctuary status when Trump yanks every last fed dime.

[D_Idaho]

The whole affair reminds me of the time Gray Davis got recalled. The already ridiculously high vehicle registration fees were going to triple under a bill he signed. Our late model pick-up would go from $180 per year to over $500! We got rid of Davis but got Schwarzenegger. Good luck, California.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Looks like Californians love Liberalism until the moment it reaches into their pockets to pay for all of the promises.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Becerra is an enemy of the state. Literally.

[vette6387]

“Deputy Attorney General Seth Goldstein said the ballot title was not misleading,

Fix Our Roads, which is funded by construction unions, contractors and business groups.”

This is how government “pays off” unions and other “special interests.

[Political Junkie Too]

It sounds like the Democrats were trying to place another "no means yes" initiative on the ballot. They do that all the time.

-PJ

[SFConservative]

A central tenet of the democrat-run California state government is that it needs to lie to or mislead their subjects so that they will vote for things that are not in their best interests but deemed necessary by their betters to keep the government gravy train going. That attitude expresses itself most obviously in the titles and summaries of ballot propositions where titles often suggest the opposite of what the thing is really about and the summaries omit and/or distort key facts.

Some of the most blatant examples of this happened while current governor Jerry Brown was attorney general of the state. This guy truly believes that the government's job is to lie to voters so they will vote for things that they don't actually want. They know they can't make a rational case for these things, so they simply lie. The sad thing is that it usually works.

[eyeamok]

He should have found Becerra’s actions to be in Contempt of Court and jailed his illegal alien loving ass.

[DPMD]

“Mislead” is a kind word. The AG proved himself a common liar.

[Jonny7797]

Moonbeam claims he is for the little guy and poor but then astronomically increased gas and car registration fees.

Media silent.

If a Republican were to do this, it would be 24/7 reporting on how R’s are destroying the middle class, and targeting the poor.