{"id":2815,"date":"2022-11-18T00:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2022-11-18T01:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:49:23","slug":"how-an-ev-proposition-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/how-an-ev-proposition-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"How an EV proposition Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? A California proposition sought to implement a 1% tax on California&#8217;s wealthiest to fund an EV Program and wildfire prevention programs. It had widespread support from nonprofit, associations, and the Democratic Party. The ballot initiative was polling above 60%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trifecta that brought the proposition down included the Governor &amp; \u00a0California Teachers Association publicly opposing the proposition, the supporter coalition had a big PR problem, and billionaires put money in to campaign against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? This is a checklist to lock down when counting your supporters. That means also checking within your own side to see if you have any potential PR issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/infrastructure\/2022\/11\/how-californias-initiative-fund-electric-vehicles-went-terribly-wrong\/379691\/\">Route Fifty | How California\u2019s Initiative to Fund Electric Vehicles Went Terribly Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? A California proposition sought to implement a 1% tax on California&#8217;s wealthiest to fund an EV Program and wildfire prevention programs. It had widespread support from nonprofit, associations, and the Democratic Party. The ballot initiative was polling above 60%. The trifecta that brought the proposition down included the Governor &amp; \u00a0California Teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}