Build a Chargers stadium with a majority vote? Not so fast.

By Jon Coupal in The San Diego Union-Tribune

March 25, 2016

Editor’s note: Those who want to build a new NFL stadium in San Diego have had their hopes raised by a court decision that suggests it would take only a majority vote, not a two-thirds vote, for the public to approve the project’s financing. We asked the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for his views about the ruling.

In its 38-year history, Proposition 13 has been under constant assault. The attacks have come from the Legislature, the media and especially the courts. After initially being upheld against a myriad of constitutional challenges, the California Supreme Court then began punching loopholes in the landmark tax reform measure.

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