Posted by David Wolfe at 5:17 am on May 29, 2013 Comments Off on Taxpayers Deserve Election Transparency
[Publisher’s Note – We are pleased to offer
this column penned by longtime FR friend David Wolfe. Wolfe
is the Legislative Director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association. We found it “fun” that liberal State Senator
Leland Yee is carrying a piece of legislation sponsored by
HJTA. What is it? Read on! — Flash]
Earlier this year hundreds of Los Angeles County voters filled
the Hall of Administration to protest a proposed $280 million/year
storm water fee, or “rain tax” as it had become known. They
were angry about the new fee that could, for some, amount to
thousands of dollars. Adding insult to injury, the notice
mailed out by the county, which was supposed to advise property
owners of their right to protest the proposed fee, was made to look
like a community newsletter touting the virtues of clean beaches
and streams.
Most who received the notice, and the protest form buried
inside, considered it junk mail and threw it away without reading
it, unwittingly forfeiting the chance to have their objection
counted before the county… Read More