More Democratic leaders are coming out to support Prop 30, while Gov. Newsom is campaigning against it.
Newsom argues Prop 30, as it's written, would benefit ride-hailing company Lyft, which has now spent $25 million to get voters to say yes.
When asked about it last week in San Jose, Newsom questioned the need for a tax increase that would benefit select corporations to do something the state is already doing. "There’s one large corporation, wonderful company, that’s going to be one of the lion’s share beneficiaries of raising everybody else’s taxes to direct money in an area where we just passed the largest appropriation in the largest [state] budget in U.S. history, $53.9 billion for our transition to electric vehicles and climate change," Newsom said."This is not a giveaway to Lyft," said Michael Lane, state policy director at SPUR."That’s a very small portion.