By large majorities and sometimes with heavy bipartisan support, the California Legislature completed one of its most significant achievements in recent memory early Friday by putting a $37.3 billion package of infrastructure bonds on the November ballot.
Besides the bond packages, lawmakers passed an added $500 million appropriation for levee repairs. They also put on the ballot another measure designed to put the brakes on the state’s continued raids on the estimated $1.4 billion in sales taxes on gasoline that is supposed to go toward highways, roads and public transit.
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