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Sacramento Bee: Big-city mayors and health care advocates pushed back hard Wednesday on Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan, even as a new poll showed a majority of Californians are satisfied with it.
Fifty-eight percent of Californians are generally satisfied with Brown's budget proposal, and 54 percent of likely voters favor his proposed ballot measure to extend temporary tax increases on sales, vehicles and income, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released Wednesday.
The poll came as mayors of nine of California's largest cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, met with Brown at the Capitol to press against his plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies. They said the infrastructure projects they fund are needed to create jobs.
"We're not going to go down quietly," Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said.
The mayors said Brown agreed to create a "working group" to discuss the matter, asking cities to propose alternative spending reductions.
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/27/3355439/budget.html#ixzz1CFvPOOqR
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