Molly Munger's tax proposal makes her a major player in California ballot wars - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee:
by tvanoot@sacbee.com (Torey Van Oot)
When Molly Munger's name surfaced last year as a potential partner on efforts to provide more funding for schools, California State PTA President Carol Kocivar had to turn to Google to find out who she was.
While Munger is a longtime champion for civil rights and education policy issues, the 63-year-old attorney was a virtual unknown in California political circles.
That changed the moment she submitted a $10 billion tax proposal for the ballot.
Munger's proposed initiative to raise state income taxes for all but the poorest Californians to fund schools and early childhood development programs – and the personal cash she has pledged to spend to put it on the ballot – makes her a major player in the 2012 ballot wars and a thorn in Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's side.
Her measure, one of at least three tax proposals that could qualify for November's ballot, is seen as
