Opponents of Measure E gather at Fresno State

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Opponents connected some sides of the aisle joined unneurotic to combat Measure E connected Monday.

Just feet from Bulldog Stadium, a radical of Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats said they opposed the projected tax.

"At a clip erstwhile the outgo of surviving is connected the rise, Measure E is not the close solution for Fresno County taxpayers," Democratic Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria said.

If passed by voters successful March, Measure E would adhd a caller region income taxation for 25 years. That caller taxation would adhd 1 cent connected astir four-dollar purchases.

"We judge this is simply a regressive tax; it's going to wounded everybody," Dee Barnes of the Fresno County Democratic Central Committee said. "This is the incorrect way."

The taxation gross -- much than 60 cardinal dollars a twelvemonth -- would spell to a agelong database of projects benefiting Fresno State, including the shot stadium.

The "Yes connected Measure E" radical says the Bulldogs' location needs much than $160,000,000 for modernization, but the field changes would not halt there.

"Two-thirds of the world buildings connected the Fresno State field are implicit 50 years old, and they person not been decently maintained," protagonist Tim Orman told Action News.

The opponents hold the field needs attraction and upgrades, but they accidental problems astatine a authorities schoolhouse bash not request a region solution.

"The radical of Fresno County should not beryllium burdened with a taxation summation to wage for improvements that the authorities should beryllium doing of its own," erstwhile Republican Congressman George Radanovich said. He is simply a campaigner for the State Assembly.

Orman disagrees with Radanovich; helium says Fresno reaps the benefits.

"80 percent of Fresno State graduates enactment present (and) go the nurses that instrumentality attraction of america erstwhile we're sick, the teachers who amended our children," Orman said.

Measure E was archetypal connected the ballot -- and failed -- successful 2022.

Now, supporters request fractional of each voters positive 1 ballot for Measure E to walk successful the March election.

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