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The ballot item, Measure R, spearheaded by actor, director and producer Rob Reiner and backed by entertainment-industry figures including Barbra Streisand, Tom Hanks and David Geffen, passed with 59 percent of the vote, according to election results released today.

Things have gotten so ugly in Los Angeles County in the fight over Measure R - The Rio Hondo Tax - that today the newspapers in the region that are the sister papers of The Los Angeles Daily News re-editorialized in favor of the Measure in hopes of saving the massive tax increase and secret trash station deal. . This is Our Chance! Defeat Higher Property Taxes - CLICK HERE for Website!! California FReepers - keep your fingers crossed! This would be a huge blow to the recent movement to both lower the threshold for passage of school bonds that...

Hey Los Angeles FReepers! Many of you will see the ballot Measure "R" on your November 5th ballot. It is VERY BAD news masked as a "for the children" schools bond. It's really a massive property tax increase to pay for a secret deal for Los Angeles County to place a giant trash docking and shipping station on property that the college would obtain if Measure "R" is approved. Dirty local politics at its worst. Fortunately it has caught the attention of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the National Tax Limitation Committee which are now on board with the...