You did it!
On Thursday afternoon, Senate Bill 423 was WITHDRAWN by its sponsors in the Legislature. This bill would have made tax relief for fire victims in the Palisades CONDITIONAL on the outcome of our initiative, the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Prop. 13. Palisades fire victims would only have received tax relief if our initiative did NOT qualify for the ballot!
But thanks to your phone calls to the Capitol, this terrible bill will not move forward this year.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the authors said they intend to bring it back in January. And that means they’re keeping the pressure on real estate interests that are aligned with protecting Proposition 13 to prevent them from supporting our campaign to qualify this critically important taxpayer protection for the ballot.
The Legislature’s plan is to pressure everyone they can to starve our campaign of funding in the hope that this will destroy the Save Prop. 13 initiative and keep it off the ballot.
We cannot let that happen.
Please, if you possibly can, donate $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can spare to help the Save Prop. 13 initiative qualify for the ballot. If we can raise $40,000 every week between now and February, we can keep our very effective advertising on the air and expand our outreach to voters even further. We can qualify this initiative for the November 2026 ballot no matter how hard Sacramento politicians try to block us from succeeding.
Can we count on your help? Click here to contribute securely online right now.
Even if you can’t donate today, you can help by collecting signatures. Download the petition at SaveProp13.com. Print as many copies as you’d like. Give them to friends, family members, neighbors – everyone who wants to keep taxes under the voters’ control in California. The Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Prop. 13 will...
- Restore the two-thirds vote requirement to pass all local special taxes, no exceptions.
- Ban and repeal all transfer taxes (sales taxes on real estate) higher than 0.11 percent.
These protections were in Proposition 13 in 1978 and are part of the state constitution today, but court-created loopholes have allowed more and more tax increases to slip through. That stops when the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Prop. 13 qualifies for the ballot and is approved by voters.
The Legislature and local governments know that our initiative will pass in the November 2026 election. That’s why they want to stop it from qualifying for the ballot in the first place.
We need about 1 million signatures, maybe more, to make sure we have enough valid signatures to qualify. We must turn in the petitions to the counties in February. But DON’T WAIT. We need about 200,000 signatures EVERY MONTH. That’s why it’s so important to tell everyone you know to go to SaveProp13.com and sign the petition.
Whether you can contribute today, collect signatures or just spread the word that everyone can go to SaveProp13.com to get the petition, THANK YOU! We couldn’t do it without you.
Thank you for protecting Proposition 13 and all California taxpayers, now and in the future.
Gratefully,
