The Daily Caller  The Daily Caller  Californians shoot down
three food and beverage-related ballot measures  California
residents of Sacramento, Richmond and El Monte voted down three
local ballot measures on Tuesday, all of them related to the
food and beverage industry.  Beverage Measures  The cities of
Richmond and El Monte proposed measures to tax sugar-sweetened
beverages in an effort to raise money for health programs and
decrease the consumption of high-calorie beverages linked to
obesity and diabetes.  Richmond and El Monte have particularly
high rates of overweight and obese children.  In El Monte, only
23 percent of voters backed Measure H, which would have
implemented a penny-per-ounce-sold tax on businesses that sell
any of the more than 700 brands of sugar-sweetened beverages. El
Monte officials estimated that the measure would have generated
between $3 million and $7 million of general fund revenues for
the financially crippled city.  In Richmond, voters
overwhelmingly shot down a similar propos