Partisans load both barrels in battle over gas tax

The Buzz is the Register’s weekly political news column.
The unrelenting legal and legislative tit-for-tat over Gov. Jerry Brown’s $52-billion road-improvement plan — and the accompanying tax and fee hikes — is a model of partisans unwilling to surrender an inch, apparently stemming from the belief that one inch could decide the battle.
And they might be right.
The roads plan, which is scheduled to increase the gas tax by 12-cents-per-gallon beginning November and hike an