Occidental Boosts Brown Campaign for Higher California Taxes
This article is for subscribers only.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s campaign to raise income and sales taxes to avoid deep cuts to schools collected $1.45 million from Occidental Petroleum Corp., American Indian gaming interests, hospitals and a building-trades union, reports show.
Occidental, the fourth-largest U.S. oil company, donated $250,000 to support the voter initiative, according to reports filed with the secretary of state as of Jan. 21. Backers need to collect 807,615 signatures for Brown’s measure to qualify for the November ballot.