Tax hike for new roads fails to get on ballot

Mon, Aug 11 2008

An ambitious statewide transportation measure, championed by Gov. Janet Napolitano and a cadre of Arizona’s most powerful interest groups, has failed to make the November ballot.

Secretary of State Jan Brewer announced Monday that Proposition 203, the TIME initiative, had fallen thousands of signatures short of the 153,365 needed to qualify.

Nearly half of the 260,698 signatures submitted by last month’s deadline were tossed out.

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