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Many times we get questions about the issues related to our initiative, the initiative process, state revenue and budget, the current crisis and about how cuts have affected California and its people. As you run across revelevant information, please send the links and stories to us.

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2/23 Californians Far More Concerned About Budget Cuts Than Taxes In a poll by the Datamar firm, taxes as an issue didn't even rate. It just got lumped in with "all other issues." Meanwhile, "budget cuts" rated as the second leading issue among all groups except Republican respondents.
2/23 Datamar Poll, page 14: What Reform do the Voters Want? The one thing that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents shared is that all three groups
listed reforming the Assembly and Senate Rules to make bills easier to pass as the most
important reform in higher frequency than the other mentioned reforms. It appears from this data
from these registered and likely voters that what is desired is action from the state government in
Sacramento even if it means changing the rules to facilitate that action.