Morning Briefs for Election Day 2012

Vote NO on Measure MH and HH that would tax Santa Monica Mountains residents to fund unaccountable Ranger Joe Edmiston's Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy/Mountain Recreation Conservation Authority Empire.

SMMC/MRCA Political Predatory Ranger Joe Edmiston lurking in search of more hillside taxes. 

Heed the call of KABC Talk Show Host/Daily News Columnist Doug McIntyre, as noted in the LA Weekly.

Measures MM and HH are parcel taxes that will help fund the work of the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA) and the related Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC), which maintain open space and parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Zone.The parcel taxes will not affect everyone in Los Angeles, only residents in special zones.As McIntyre points out, "HH would slap a $24-per-year tax for the next 10 years on properties within a cherry-picked election 'district': a large area east of the 405, including the Hollywood Hills and the hillside homes west of Griffith Park."The columnist adds, "Measure MM hits up homeowners west of the 405 and south of the 101 in Woodland Hills, Encino, Tarzana and Calabasas. They get off easy at only $19 per year for the next 10 years."Only voters in those areas will vote on measures MM and HH.Previously, the L.A. Daily News wrote an editorial that supports both initiatives: "Unlike some proposed taxes, this one is affordable, it directly benefits those paying it, and it is demonstrably necessary. Voters should say yes on Measures HH and MM."McIntrye followed that up with his own take on the measures. His biggest problem is that no one in county or city government seems to know how the initiatives made it on the ballot."If the City Council wants to raise our taxes they have to vote to put it on a ballot," wrote the columnist. "If an advocacy group wants a ballot measure they have to gather signatures. How is it possible the MRCA can simply send a letter to the county clerk and get a tax measure on the ballot that kicks off millions of dollars to the MRCA with no check or balance?"McIntrye doesn't think too highly of SMMC and MRCA chief Joe Edmiston, who, according to the columnist, "works best in the shadows."

..... or lurks in the tall grasses in search of taxes and new properties to sustain his accountable empire.

43rd Assembly District Candidate Greg Krikorian appears on KFI's "John and Ken Show".

 

The task today for 43rd AD voters is to turn out and vote to bring mature, responsible leadership back by voting for Greg Krikorian.