Now they support [the bond] and are urging Californians to vote “yes.” A half dozen other Republican Assembly members who voted with them are doing the same, along with most of the state’s anti-tax, anti-borrowing crowd — from the Howard Jarvis Assn. to the California Taxpayers Assn.
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That leaves some grass-roots groups unhappy. “I think it’s extremely disappointing,” said Joe Armendariz, executive director of the Santa Barbara Taxpayers Assn. “I think the Jarvis association is missing an opportunity on this one to tell the truth. You can’t borrow your way out of debt. “At the same time, I know they are working with Arnold on some stuff,” Armendariz said. “There are behind-the-scenes dynamics preventing Jarvis from taking that position.”
It Stinks!