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From Los Angeles Times:

SACRAMENTO — Quoting from the New Testament and with his dog Sutter by his side, Gov. Jerry Brown formally kicked off his campaign Wednesday for Proposition 30.

Brown cast the November ballot measure, which would temporarily raise sales taxes and impose an income surcharge on California’s highest earners, as a choice between requiring the wealthiest residents to pay more and losing about $6 billion from public schools and universities.

“It’s about taking money from the most blessed and giving it to the schools,” the governor said.

Money raised by the measure — up to $8 billion next year — would be used mostly to prevent a $5-billion cut from primary and secondary schools and stave off a $250-million reduction in each of the state’s two public university systems.

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