See how much Senator Mark DeSaulnier is going to cost your family in new taxes with his support of a totally irresponsible California budget proposal that raises even more taxes on Californians.
Check the Calculator at the Sacramento Bee.
See update from Contra Costa Taxpayers Association. It concludes that the more we learn about the proposed budget proposal, the worse it looks. See what kind of snake oil Senator Mark DeSaulnier is selling.
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Bill Gram-Reefer is Editor & Publisher of Halfway To Concord, founded in 2004. Halfway To Concord is the leading online source for community-driven political news, events, and opinion for Contra Costa County and the San Francisco East Bay.
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74% of the $850,000 raised to elect Senator Mark Desaulnier came from Sacramento. Sacramento is NOT in the seventh senate district. You may now have an answer on why the voices of the seventh senate district are not heard on legislation in the California State Senate. Pass the insight along
DeSaulnier has cost this county billions of dollars. Consider the current county budget deficit of millions of dollars and the billions of debt for retiree healthcare and for pensions. Those are thr result of his leadership while on the Board and are all are coming to fruition today.
Other that those, all negative, I can’t think of a contribution he made to this county as a supervisor. What a legacy to leave behind, Mark.
California’s deficit relative to its size–$41 billion in a state of 37 million, or $1,108 per resident. Even New York, the next most fiscally pressed state, clocks in with a mere $13 billion for 19 million residents, or $685 per capita.
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To The Editoir:
State Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) has never seen a tax that he does not like.
Her also spends public money recklessly.
When he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, he voted, in late 2006, to raise supervisors’ salaries by 60%.
DeSaulnier’s vote for the brutal February 2009 tax and budget legislation in the Califonia State Legislature, shows that DeSaulnier is no friend of senior citizens or poor people. That tax legislation will, on April 1, 2009, raise the sales tax in Contra Costra County from 8.25% to 9.25%.
Sales taxes are regressive, meaning that they fall hardest on those least able to pay.
There are problems with the so-called open primary, the kind of election in which all sorts of candidates enter a primary and the two biggest vote-getters face off against each other in the general (November) election.
If there had been an open primary in June 2008, there is a good change that former State Assemblyman, Joe Canciiamilla (D-Pittsburg), would have had enough votes to go on to the November contest, In November 2008, Canciamilla would, in all likelihood, have been elected to the State Senate.
Canciamilla is a moderate Democrat, willing to listen to senior citizens, business, labor, young people, and others.
I have no doubt that Canciamilla would have been a much better state senator than DeSaulnier.
DeSaulnier is a captive of such special interests as public employees and the teachers union. He used to be a Republican. Today, he is just an opportunist.
One would hope that DeSaulnier’s current term in the State Senate is his last.
If the next state senator from northern Contra Costa County is Joe Canciamilla, all voters can expect decent representation in Sacramento.
Richard S. Colman
Orinda, CA
Feb. 23, 2009
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