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...everybody was unhappy with the cuts. Their most gratified supporter was the author of Proposition 140, Pete Schabarum, 62, a crusty member of the Los Angeles county board of supervisors and former state assemblyman who is now campaigning to extend the term-limit stricture to the state's Senators and 45 Congressmen and to elected bodies in all 58 counties...
...Green's critics are also trying to demonize its best-known proponent: state assemblyman Tom Hayden, co-founder of the 1960s New Left organization Students for a Democratic Society, who they claim wants to be the first elected to the powerful job of environmental advocate. One group of Big Green opponents is airing radio spots in which a woman sarcastically intones, "Hey, call it what it really is: the Hayden initiative. You know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide...
...structure, unveiling his $12.4 billion tax-and- slash budget. Anticipating that the state's liberal Supreme Court would soon order that aid to school districts be equalized, Florio beat the jurists to the punch by proposing his own plan. "Everyone is a bit shell-shocked," says former Democratic assemblyman Alan Karcher. "He had made a career out of being associated with safe issues...
...quite grounds for declaring a counterrevolution. Yet there are other signs that the constraints imposed by Proposition 13 have begun to chafe. A position paper compiled by assemblyman Tom Hayden points out that California, once a leader of progressive government, has dropped to near last place among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in measures of living quality, including per capita spending on schools, classroom size and housing affordability...
...translate into relief for overcrowded highways. A $5 million campaign for Proposition 111 and its companion Proposition 108 spelled out the spending goals to the last detail. "Our strategy was to explain that this 5 cents a gallon is $5 a month to the average family of four," says assemblyman Richard Katz. "If you live in the San Fernando Valley, that gets you two lanes on the Simi Valley Freeway and an additional lane in each direction on the Ventura Freeway...