"People were afraid they would go to the bank to try to withdraw money and there wouldn't be any money there," said Zev Yaroslavsky, a former Los Angeles County supervisor who worked closely with Villaraigosa on the proposal, Measure R. "My instincts told me if the bottom is falling out of the economy, the prospects of success for this measure are bottoming out as well."

Source: Los Angeles Times May 22, 2018 06:56 UTC