President of the Central Coast Taxpayers Association Andrea Seastrand and Chuck Bell, a board member and local lawyer who represents the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, provided the following response to San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Jimmy Paulding’s claim that the two-third vote requirement of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, enacted by voters in the iconic Proposition 13 in 1978, was not an “essential part” of Proposition 13’s taxpayer protections.
Jimmy Paulding is flat wrong to deny that the two-thirds vote requirement in Proposition 13 was not an “essential feature” of the measure. Paulding used his false assertion to reject the claim that he was not supporting the county’s Jan. 2023 legislative position in favor of Proposition 13 when the progressive board majority, on a 3-2 vote with Paulding’s support, reversed its previous support of Proposition 13 at its Sept. 12 meetin