From K-QED.

I'm Olivia Allen Price. This is Bay Curious.

Election season is here, and if you're anything like like me you wait until a day or two

before election day to cram on the facts and decide how you'll vote, especially on

those confusing California ballot initiatives. Each year I vow to do better, to start

earlier, to not wait until the last minute. This is that year. Over the next five days, we'll be exploring the 11 statewide propositions that Californians are voting on.

Not just what the prop is about, but also how it came to be on the ballot in the first place.

We'll drop a new episode each day.

Some will cover multiple props, some just one, and by Friday afternoon you and I will

be Hella informed.

We're calling it Bay Curious Prop Week.

First up is Proposition 6, the effort to repeal the state's new gas tax and vehicle fees.

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Prop 6, the proposal to repeal the state's new gas tax and vehicle fees.

It has become one of the top issues for Republicans in California this year.

But before we dive into it, let's first understand how the tax and fees were passed in the first place.

Colleagues, we are back in session if everyone would take their seats.

It's April 6th, 2017. The state Senate has already been in session for nearly three hours, by the time they arrive at Senate Bill 1.

SB 1, which is a long-term solution to our transportation infrastructure problem in California.

KQD's politics and government reporter, Katie Orr, was there.

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