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Measure B foes, supporters release fundraising statements
by Kathleen Haley, published on October 5, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Storyline: Sacramento City Hall / Politics
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Opponents and supporters of a November ballot measure to cut utilities rates in the city released their fundraising statements Tuesday.
The new campaign statements provide information about money raised in recent months up to Sept. 30.
The statements showed that the Yes on Measure B campaign had raised more than six times the money of the opposing campaign in the past few months.
The No on Measure B campaign raised $6,000 by Sept. 30. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 447 gave $5,000 to the campaign, while the Friends of Steve Cohn for City Council 2010 committee contributed the remaining $1,000.
The Campaign for Common Sense Utilities Rates, which backs Measure B, had raised $39,822 from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30. About $23,000 of that amount was contributions, and about $16,000 came from loans.
Protect Proposition 13, a Santa Monica-based group affiliated with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, gave $2,500 to the campaign on Sept. 3.
The Sacramento-based California Apartment Association Political Action Committee contributed $3,600 to the Measure B supporters’ campaign in September.
Measure B would eliminate a 9.2 percent utilities rate hike and also link city utilities rates with the Consumer Price Index. The measure states that if the Consumer Price Index increases, then utilities rates could be increased.
The measure would also require the public to vote on utilities rate increases that are higher than the inflation rate.
Read about the debate over the measure here.
Photo by Brandon Darnell.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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The Bee has said it would cripple to city's ability to fix its aging sewer and water system. The obvious question is what have they been doing with the extra money all along? In any event nothing prevents the city from coming back to the voters with specific projects and asking for the money to pay for them. Voters repeated passage of Measure A, transportation taxes have shown they will pay for needed projects.
I would suggest city staff start working on such a measure for the next election.
Measure B simply requires that voters must approve annual rate increases that exceed the rate of inflation.
You call Measure B draconian. I call it common sense.
I think we can all see what is going on here. If you give a mouse ( STEVE COHEN ) a piece of cheese today he will come back tomorrow and eat the whole wedge when you're not looking.
They need to be sent a message about responsibility to the ones they are suppose to be representing. They have been given our trust and they seem to misuse and abuse that trust whenever they think they can get away with it.
VOTE YES on Measure B and let's put a stop to their shell game.
"Protect Proposition 13, a Santa Monica-based group affiliated with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, gave $2,500 to the [Yes on Measure B] campaign on Sept. 3."
Howard Jarvis....hmmmmm.....