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News, Arts, Entertainment & More for Long Beach, Huntington Beach, and Costa MesaMAYOR’S CHIEF OF STAFF MAY LEAVE CITY HALL TO LEAD PARCEL-TAX CAMPAIGN
Started by districtweekly · 10 months ago
Will Mayor Bob Foster’s push for passage of his proposed $571-million parcel property tax increase be so intensive that it temporarily pushes his chief of staff, Becki Ames, out of City Hall to head the campaign?
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10 months ago
I will vote for your parcel tax ONLY if I know EXACTLY what I will be getting for my money. You have been in office for 2 years; I expect a MUCH clearer definition than TRUST ME. There are numerous similar examples of how my trust has been mislaid in the past by former city and elected officials.
As an SCE executive, did you fund your maintenance department on their promise to fix stuff, or did you require them to define where the money would be spent? Accountability is the key. I know that makes you feel uncomfortable. Almost as uncomfortable as I feel giving you my money.
I hope your campaigners are going to work on project scope definition and stop their campaign that the world will end without the parcel tax. Resorting to scare tactics doesn’t provide me much confidence and won’t get my vote.
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Let’s see who donates to this besides large corporations waiting for a healthy contract and possible unions waiting for a Project Labor Agreement. Don’t hold your breath! He has betrayed workers before and will again.
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How can someone who wields so much influence be so unaccountable to taxpayers and voters ? You have to question the mayor's judgement in deferring so much to a single staffer.
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10 months ago
I've had the privilege to meet both Bob and Becki and have found them both to be exceedingly honorable in intent and eminently capable.
But were they not….were they as inept at governing and incompetent in conducting their personal lives as, say, LBUSD Board Member Michael Shane Ellis, then we, the electorate, would have the ultimate power and authority to remove them; Bob by recall and Becki by assuring that Bob's replacement dismissed her.
Fortunately neither Bob nor Becki suffer from the governmental incompetence and personality disorders that Ellis does else they would be properly and promptly removed just like he was...
...oh wait, that's right, Ellis wasn't removed. To this day he still sits on our School Board. And why? Because the electorate couldn't develop the will sufficient to remove him….couldn’t remember that the responsibility to assure that our government remains ethical and responsive is theirs alone.
Thus, City Hall, we see that, ultimately, any failing in our government is, in truth, a failing in ourselves.