Your vote should be NO!
Why would you allow the PG&E (via the
STATE OF CALIFORNIA) to be the REGULATOR of
MUNICIPAL UTILITIES? Where in the California
Constitution does it already ALLOW such control?
And why on earth would Californians want
to make
this a Constitutional Amendment and not a
statute that can be cleaned up
later?
Again, I ask you WHY? Do you really want
to put put more power into the hands of the
socialist (the government controls everything)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA and PG&E?
"Proposition 16, the New Two-Thirds
Requirement for Local Public Electricity Providers
Act is on the June 8, 2010 ballot in
California as an initiated constitutional
amendment."
"If
the initiative is approved by
voters, it
will make it more difficult than it is currently
for local entities to form either municipal
utilities, or community wide clean electricity
districts called Community
Choice Aggregators (CCAs). Forming a local
municipal utility or a CCA, if this measure is
enacted, will require the approval, through
election, of 2/3rds of the voters who live in the
area of the would-be local municipal utility or
CCA.[1] "
[snip]
And if PG&E is FOR IT...I am definitely
against it!! Do you really think PG&E
is shyly hoping NEW MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL
UTILITIES will receive a fair shake? Don't
believe it! PG&E is supporting this because of
their GREED! They just don't want any
competition on their monopoly!
For your information, it is being called the
PG&E "Trojan Horse" Iniative.
Be very careful before you turn garbage like
this into a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT! Make sure
you can understand EVERY WORD of the new
constitutional amendment before you place it in
our State Constitution. As it stands...I haven't
the foggiest idea what 80% of it is all about!
Neither do you!
You can read the full text at:
I am sure you and every California
hasn't a clue as to what all the ramifications
are...It would take a team of Corporate PG&E
lawyers to interpret what the outcome of such a
bizarre piece of law would be.
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Sent:
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Subject:
Fwd: Californians Right to Vote
What do you
think
Mark S Johnson
951 295-6429
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354-7066
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Dear California
Voter,
Our state unemployment
rate is 12.1 percent. California faces another
$20 billion deficit this fiscal year. And every
taxpayer in the state is personally responsible
for repaying state and local government debt
that already exceeds $145
billion.
In tough economic times
like these, we should have the right to say how
our tax dollars are spent.
Voting Yes on Proposition
16 – the Taxpayers Right to Vote Initiative –
will guarantee our right to vote before local
politicians can put our money at
risk.
Right now local
governments can spend virtually unlimited
amounts of our money starting, expanding or
taking over private electric businesses –
without asking our permission. Entering the
costly and risky electricity business can
require expenditures in the hundreds of millions
of dollars. But no voter approval is
required.
Proposition 16 simply
requires politicians to ask for our permission
before they spend or risk our tax dollars on
electric utility bureaucracies. Prop. 16
adopts the same standard of voter approval for
local special taxes and bonds for police and
fire facilities, parks and roads, libraries,
water systems and other important
priorities.
The politicians want to
keep their power to spend our money without our
permission. But in tough times like these, the
best safeguard against waste and reckless
spending is our right to vote on how taxpayer
money is spent.
Supporters of the
Taxpayers Right to Vote Initiative – Yes
on 16 include the California Taxpayers
Association, the California Chamber of Commerce
and Pacific Gas and Electric
Company, a
frequent target of government takeovers.
Join the growing
coalition in support of Proposition
16 to safeguard our tax dollars.
Taxpayers Right to Vote –
Yes on 16
Coalition
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