The Los Angeles Times yesterday became the highest-profile California newspaper to come out against Proposition 89, saying in an editorial that:

Voters can disagree over whether California overtaxes or undertaxes corporations and banks, but it is indisputable that using them, exclusively, as the source of election funding focuses a burden on one interest that should be shared by all … [T]he way to diminish the corrosive power of special-interest money in elections, including initiative elections, is not to cut off access for one interest and allow others (such as labor unions, homeowner groups, environmentalists or anyone else) to keep spending. Voters should reject Proposition 89 as a measure that proponents claim would reduce the power of all moneyed interests but instead singles out one — corporations — for unequal treatment.

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