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...most dramatic protest is in California, where 1.5 million people have signed petitions and forced a statewide vote to be held June 6 on Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative. If approved, Jarvis-Gann would force all property to be reassessed at the market value that prevailed in 1975-76 and prevent local authorities from increasing the assessments in the future by more than 2% a year, at least until the property is sold. After that, the rate would be based on what the new owner paid. The amendment would produce an immediate cut of as much...
...battle in California over the Jarvis-Gann initiative to reduce property taxes has reached an almost religious intensity. Reports TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane: "Reason and logic seem to have been put to flight, and taxpayers want revenge. The real propulsion behind the amendment is the need for people to send a message to government that enough is enough...
...Angeles-based United Organization of Taxpayers fell short by 1,200 names of the 500,000 signatures needed to put their property-tax amendment on the ballot. Last May he formed an alliance with the People's Advocate, headed by retired Real Estate Salesman Paul Gann, and tried again. By the end of the 150-day signature-gathering period prescribed by law, the petition papers were covered with a phenomenal 1.2 million signatures. Another 300,000 signed later to bring the total to 1.5 million-24% of the number of all those who actually voted in California...
...which would make the novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words per day-just like Erie Stanley Gardner-and markets the finished products under a variety of exotic pseudonyms (like O.R. Gann, "a leading authoress," or "the struggling Nigerian author, S. Odomy"). He also adopts a zealously sleazy lifestyle and a cheap line of patter to fit his chosen profession. No sooner has Mickey polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named...
...Antagonists, Gann...