Excerpt from Proposition 103 Testimony
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Excerpts from Proposition 103 Testimony
The following text discusses the Department's proposed rollback methodology, as amended in its Preliminary Prayer (the Department's Prayer), and outlines the ways in which it is seriously flawed.
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