Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 6, 1990 TAG: 9006060523
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A/6 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LENGTH: Short
Proposition 111, a symbolic end to the tax revolt that began with passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, was approved Tuesday along with a companion measure to provide $1 billion in bond funding for commuter trains.
California voters also rejected two redistricting measures that would have helped Republicans. An ethics-in-government proposition won by a wide margin. And a prosecutor-sponsored initiative to shorten trials, narrow defendants' rights and expand the death penalty, was approved.
In local elections, San Francisco voters approved a record $332 million bond issue to help pay for repairs from last October's earthquake. Voters in two San Francisco Bay area counties - Alameda and Marin - voted down measures to create or strengthen "nuclear-free zones."
Proposition 111, the highway and rail-building proposal championed by Gov. George Deukmejian and a coalition of business and labor, was winning 53 percent to 47 percent.
The measure proved most popular in the freeway-laced urban regions. Rural voters showed they solidly disliked the measure.
Proposition 111's companion measure, Proposition 108, led by 56 percent to 44 percent.
Voters also approved Proposition 116, a $1.99 billion bond levy for mass-transit rail building, by 53 percent to 47 percent.
by CNB