Hoping to garner voter and political support across Los Angeles County for a possible half-cent sales tax increase, wrote Laura Nelson in the LA Times, advocates gathered downtown on Friday to unveil a proposal for a 2016 ballot measure that could fund a range of new transit projects. Responsing to critics who complained the City of LA received the lion's share of transit projects from the half-cent sales tax increase approved by voters six years ago, elected officials including LA Mayor Eric Garcetti emphasized that revenue would benefit all parts of the county. "It will not simply be Mother Metro saying 'This is what you get,'" Metro Board of Directors Chair Diane Dubois, also a City Councilmember from the City of Lakewood, told the audience. Added Move LA Executive Director Denny Zane, "What we're doing here is trying to figure out what wins."

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