Dear editor,
So many voters in Pasadena really don’t know the real story of the need for the sales tax increase. They only drank the fear of collapse of all the service they haven’t gotten in the past and that the tax would solve the problem overnight. So sorry but it won’t. The money will first go to pay down pension obligations and additional salaries to continue getting the best people for the jobs. So they say [sic]. I don’t think the schools will make much improvement because families will still send their kids to the best schools they can, even though they will still pay for public school taxes. Folks now will even pay more to drive their cars because the tax will raise the price of gasoline in the city. The entire 3/4 of a cent more than what we now pay [sic]. The transportation folks are dancing in the street with all the new money coming in, even though the gas tax was already raised under a measure 6 months ago. What I would still like reported from the media is who and how much was given in support to measures I and J. Tell us the numbers of those public support donations of $25, so that we can see just how much financial support the public really supported the measures. I think the real support will have come from those most likely to save their jobs from poor management of public funds. More to come [sic].
-Richard Luczyski
PASADENA
