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3. The city has continued to
overspend and increase wages, even
when the Great Recession started in
2008-09.
4. Other cities cut spending during
that time. Pasadena continued to
spend. I guess that is the true “Pasadena
Way.”
5. The city that watched $6.4 million
get embezzled right under their
noses wants more of your money. That
is tantamount to giving a drug addict
heroin.
6. The new tax will make sales
taxes in Pasadena the highest in the
state and threatens businesses and
loss of jobs to Los Angeles and other
surrounding cities.
7. Like state Proposition 30 which
passed, money is fungible and the city
can spend that additional $21 million
on anything it wants, such as CALP-
ERS payments or new enhanced pension
contracts. They are under no obligation
to spend it, as the brochures
states, on decaying infrastructure;
infrastructure that they have been
derelict maintaining for decades.
8. The city claims that LA County
will increase sales taxes too. Well,
county voters should say no to that
also.
9. Sales taxes are regressive. They
hurt those that can’t afford it the
most.
It’s time for Pasadena to do what
every family and every business has
to do — live within their means. So
far, Pasadena has proved they get
their fair share, and then they squander
it.
Vote NO on Measure I
Oh Measure J, the same city that
has mismanaged taxpayer money now
wants some of that to go to a school
district that has severe management
problems of its own. Consider the following:
1. The Pasadena teachers union
recently voted “No Confidence” in
the district’s superintendent, Brian
McDonald
2. The district has mismanaged
Measure TT bond funds repeatedly
as noted by several representatives
who served on the Citizens’ Oversight
Committee (COC). In fact, one
member of the COC was removed by
the School Board after questioning
disallowed bond expenditures.
3. The PUSD needs to be overseen
by the LA County Office of Education
after filing a “negative” budget, one of
only three districts in the state to do
so.
Vote NO on Measure J
The city of Pasadena and the
PUSD have demonstrated they cannot
responsibly handle the public’s
money. Until they demonstrate they
can responsibly handle your money
they do not deserve more.
(The above comments are not a
reflection or position of any neighborhood
association affiliation.)
- STAN CLARK
PASADENA
THE ‘SHEEPLE’ HAVE SPOKEN
In my 75 years in this world, I have
heard thousands of lies, big and small
and in between. The biggest lie I ever
read about was the one told by Hitler,
in 1938, when he said he had no more
territorial claims to make after annexing
part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland).
The next biggest lie or lies are
the ones regarding ballot propositions,
both pro and con. This year is
no exception.
Looking at the TV ads arguing for
or against current ballot propositions,
after reading what the voter
guides say about same, it is tough to
see any similarity. The voter guides
say one thing about the propositions
and the TV ads say things that are not
remotely similar. Flagrantly false, big
lies seem to be the rule and not the
exception. Not one word of real truth
in any of them.
What the foregoing means, folks,
is that voters must, repeat must, stop
using their brains for cushions (which
they do when they believe anything
the see and hear from the false TV
ads) and use them to THINK (after
they read what the voter guides say).
What ever happened to the laws
about false advertising? Apparently
TV ads, regarding the pros and cons
of ballot propositions, are no longer
covered. Maybe the laws are simply
not being enforced by the FCC or FTC,
or MAYBE none of the “sheeple” has
submitted complaints.
Look at who is paying for the false
TV ads. It’s certainly not the citizens
or voters of California who might benefit
from the passage of these propositions.
Follow the money, folks, and
stop using your brains for cushions.
Think, read, and think again before
you cast a vote in total ignorance.
- JOHN JAY
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