Dont pay any gas tax and all of this would generate 5 billion annually for road repair. This is like fixing the roof on your house. If you dont fix the leak, your furniture will be ruined; your rug will be destroyed; the wood will rot. Thats what its all about. So step up and pay. Thats what this bill is all about. Reporter but republicans in the legislature are not so quick to agree on higher taxes and they are preparing for a fight. What they propose is one of the largest gas tax increases in california history if not the largest and it impacts low and middle income families especially. Reporter republicans arguing that california already spends enough money on gas taxes but or rather collect enough money on gas taxes but spends it on the wrong projects. One of the things that they are railing against there is high speed rail. The governor needs a twothirds majority to pass this. And he set a deadline for a vote in one week, april 6. Live in concord, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Does it loo
California attorney general and bay area native, kamala harris, has now launched her campaign to succeed Barbara Boxer in the u. S. Senate. Sal castanedo joins us from the newsroom with more on her campaign. Good afternoon, sal. Tori, good afternoon. It was expected and it came. The announcement that harris, a democrat, will pursue boxers senate seat. This morning the announcement was made on her website. Now, on her website, harris asked her supporters to help her build a Grassroots Campaign that reaches every community of california. The 50yearold attorney general was once d. A. In oakland and San Francisco and is now currently in her second term. Shes the first woman and africanamerican to be California Attorney general and is seen as a rising political star. On her website, she says in part, i will be a fighter for middleclass workers who are feeling the pinch of stagnant wages and diminishing opportunity. Our children deserve a world class education. Senator bar brow boxer who is
Can tell you, we have evolved beyond holding tea parties. A georgia, we are beginning Precinct Organization plan. We are going after swing and independent voters. We formed a coalition with the grassrootsservative organization in georgia. We are going to be very competitive in the primary. We need to elect people to congress and two Elective Office that are not going to be in the pocket of big business, Big Corporation sponsors. They are going to say no to them we would a shame that send elected officials to washington dc that care more about appeasing their corporate you continue corporate cronyism and corporate welfare. They talk about our Entitlement Society and how we need to reform our welfare system and entitlement system. Total agreement with that. But we also need to reform subsidies, stop corporate welfare and corporate subsidies, and we need to tell the government to stop picking winners and losers. Subsidies are monopolies in the energy field are the governments ways of pick
Scott boldin, the former chair of the Democratic Party. I believe, can you tell me, im sorry, i just was told that you were available for me to chat. Washington, d. C. , tell me. D. C. Democratic party, which is the party, Democratic Party in the nations capital. Call it what you want. Youre looking at this, tom perez, and this was pretty close this vote, i think it was like 200 to 235. Yes. Tell me, this is a big job that tom perez has, as the influence of the party is waning. As you see discord between the left side of the party, and the more moderate part of it. Yeah, that gap is still everpresent. Normally the dnc, when i was chair of the d. C. Democratic party in 20022004. These races really werent that close. This was close. It magnifies the division in the party between the progressives, the Bernie Sanders, and then the more centrist. However i will say this, tom perez, who is an hispanic democrat, has the bona fides as a progressive and the labor support to do a lot better than
Tweet tonight. Just moments ago he tweeted, congress now has six months to legalize daca, something the Obama Administration wasnt able to do. If they cant, i will revisit this issue. Well talk about all tv with the Panel Members but for the first, for the latest to sara mary on the north lawn of the white house. So the tweet, is there any clarity from the white house on what he means by revisiting the issue because it does seem at odds with what he said earlier. Well it is at odds with the attorney general saying they are resibding the program. And cold comfort to the nearly 8 hub thousand people who could be impacted this by policy change holding out the possibility that maybe the president could make sp change later down the line. That maybe congress will step up and get its act together and pass an immigration bill. There is a lot of skepticism about that here in washington. And across the United States. For good reason. And there is still a very real chance that people will have t