Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann celebrating after Proposition 13 was declared a winner on June 6, 1978. The measure, which cut local property taxes by more than 50 percent, doubled the state's voter turnout and made celebrities of activists Jarvis and Gann, who co-sponsored it. As a result of Prop. 13, state and county governments were hit with revenue shortages totaling more than $22.3 billion.
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