This is what is going on:
Out-of-state politicians of the Left and Right have always used California as a proving ground to try out "trial balloons" that they would not dream about experimenting on their own constituents with as those constituents might vote them right out of office. That's why so much stuff like this in California is funded by Eastern political interests, out-of-state religious groups, and out-of-state corporations of all kinds. They like to put their toe in the water in California first. If something like a new gas tax works here, they will try it in their home states too.
I have noticed this since I was in high school over 40 years ago.
Out-of-state politicians of the Left and Right have always used California as a proving ground to try out "trial balloons" that they would not dream about experimenting on their own constituents with as those constituents might vote them right out of office. That's why so much stuff like this in California is funded by Eastern political interests, out-of-state religious groups, and out-of-state corporations of all kinds. They like to put their toe in the water in California first. If something like a new gas tax works here, they will try it in their home states too.
I have noticed this since I was in high school over 40 years ago.