RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: ELECTION 2010: VOTE NO ON MEASURE A in BELLFLOWER! "A 40% higher Utility Tax will not make you safer!"

Monday, October 18, 2010

ELECTION 2010: VOTE NO ON MEASURE A in BELLFLOWER! "A 40% higher Utility Tax will not make you safer!"

Image via Wikipedia By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
October 18, 2010
6:51 p.m.

Bellflower, USA!

I love Bellflower.
I hate local taxes.

We are taxed to death, literally here in California. I want EVERYONE in BELLFLOWER to VOTE NO on MEASURE A in two weeks. My great friend, former Bellflower Mayor Art Olivier sent me this note today for the community, and I wanted to make sure that EVERYONE gets a chance to see "the other side" of local taxes in our community. Art is one of my heroes. We need more people like Art in public office. Solid leaders who aren't afraid to stand up for what is RIGHT!

Thanks, Art!
Rre

Randy:
A 40% higher Utility Tax will not make you safer!

The Utility Users’ Tax simply diverts General Fund money away from Law Enforcement to pay higher salaries for managers in City Hall and for other wasteful spending.

Before the Utility Tax was enacted in Bellflower, no city employee made a six-figure salary, not even close. Now, the city is able to use excessive General Fund revenue to give themselves massive pay increases. Eighteen employees in City Hall are now making over $100,000 a year plus benefits. They are even retiring at over $100,000 a year plus benefits and cost-of-living increases!

There is no limit to how much money the managers at City Hall can make, only a limit on how much in taxes you are willing to give them.

The Bellflower City Council has declared a State of Fiscal Emergency due to their irresponsible spending habits. In the last four years, they have squandered nearly $9 million of the $10 million Bellflower reserve.

The tax proponents claim that they have laid off one-third of city employees. What they did was lay off part-time workers that were making close to minimum wage. The six-figure managers are still there making over $100,000 a year.

If Measure A passes, you will be paying a 40% higher Utility Tax for your electricity, gas, telephone and cell phone. If you are paying $100 now, your new rate will be $140.

I hope this helps you make an informed decision when you vote on November 2nd. This will be the only email I am sending out about Measure A.
Sincerely,

Art Olivier
Former Mayor of Bellflower

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Meet Randy Economy

You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Monday, October 18, 2010

ELECTION 2010: VOTE NO ON MEASURE A in BELLFLOWER! "A 40% higher Utility Tax will not make you safer!"

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