Posted on 08/02/2010 7:59:12 AM PDT by SmithL
Republican Assemblyman Anthony Adams bucked his party 18 months ago to vote for a state budget that contained a hefty tax increase.
Adams was excoriated by conservative anti-tax groups and radio talkers (two of whom called to have his "head on a pike"), and a recall was threatened.
It soon became apparent, however, that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic leaders were rewarding Adams for his tax vote in the form of a budget "trailer bill" that amended redevelopment law.
The measure allowed Glendora, a city in Adams' Southern California district, to retain about $2.6 million a year in property taxes from redevelopment that otherwise would go to other local governments and schools in Los Angeles County.
The other shoe dropped recently when a state appellate court ruled that Glendora's redevelopment plan is illegal because the city had not proved the existence of urban blight as required by law, upholding a lower court ruling in a lawsuit brought against Glendora by the county of Los Angeles.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I lived in Glendora back in the 90s and still have some friends there and can tell you it does not have “urban blight”...it is a nice, well-to-do community with a downtown area like old town USA. He should never have allocated funds for Glendora - now Azusa (the town just to the west of Glendora) has more what I could call “blight”...
MORE GOV’T WASTE by our elected officials. We need to run candidates who are NOT SPENDERS, but cutters!
Gee...a RINO in Kalifornia? Whoda thunk it??!!
Republicans need to be taught that tax increases are the third rail. Touch it, even hint at it and you need to die(politically).
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