Villaraigosa To Homeowners: "Screw You Guys"

Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Clowncil put the issue to the voters: shall we impose a tax on homeowners to subsidize construction in the name of "affordable housing."

The voters said "no." Measure H failed to get the required two-thirds majority vote for a tax hike, due almost entirely to the cogent "no" arguments printed on the ballot, penned by yours truly and the Howard Jarvis group.

So the Mayor and City Clowncil have accepted the voters will, and moved on to other possible policy measures, right?

Wrong!

The Mayor plans to keep bludgeoning voters with election after election on the same issue until there are enough renters in this City to "stick it" to the few remaining homeowners.

According to the L.A. Times, "Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared Monday that he intends to try again as early as next February."

Why would he do such a thing? See if you can figure it out from the following sentence in the article:

"The mayor announced plans Monday to commit $137 million to developers to build 1,222 affordable units and an additional 274 units for homeless people."

Did you find the presidents' face hidden in the picture? You know, the DEAD presidents' faces, on dollars? He needs to deliver millions to those developers so they will fund his coming campaigns for his next office.