{"id":32327,"date":"2012-11-07T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32327"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:30:04","slug":"la-times-measure-j-l-a-county-transportation-tax-extension-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/07\/la-times-measure-j-l-a-county-transportation-tax-extension-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Measure J, L.A. County transportation tax extension, fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measure J, the proposed 30-year extension of a half-cent transportation sales tax in Los Angeles County, failed to receive the two-thirds majority needed to pass during Tuesday&#8217;s election, falling short by about 2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>With 100% of precincts reporting, support for Measure J reached 64.72% while those opposed tallied 35.28%, according to the county&#8217;s registrar-recorder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this clearly for us was about trying to show from the community that we were not going to give a vote of confidence to (the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) and obviously MTA could not pass the [two-thirds] threshold,&#8221; said Sunyoung Yang of the Bus Riders Union, a group that strongly opposed Measure J.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/11\/measure-j-la-county-transit-tax-extension-fails.html\">Click here<\/a> for full article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measure J, the proposed 30-year extension of a half-cent transportation sales tax in Los Angeles County, failed to receive the two-thirds majority needed to pass during Tuesday&#8217;s election, falling short by about 2 percentage points. With 100% of precincts reporting, support for Measure J reached 64.72% while those opposed tallied 35.28%, according to the county&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32328,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32327\/revisions\/32328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}