“No New Tax” Ackerman Raised Water Rates by 20% in April. Where There’s a Will There’s a Way!

By
Tony Bushala
– October 19, 2009Posted in: 72nd Assembly Race, anaheim, brea, chris norby, fullerton, hypocrisy, orange, Placentia, republiklans, Yorba Linda
Maybe I was just dizzy from balancing all those budgets...

Maybe I was just dizzy from balancing all those budgets...

Yesterday we published an e-mail from Joe Sipowicz about the lame-brain “no tax pledge” signed by Mrs. Linda Ackerman, presumably to shore up uncertainty about her conservative credentials. She needs to.

As Joe trenchantly pointed out, there are all sorts of ways to raise revenue without calling them taxes. Let’s cast our minds back a few months.

Back on April 14 of this year, never dreaming of ever becoming a candidate for political office, Linda Ackerman went along with the pro-government revenue crowd – voting to raise MWD water rates by an astounding 19.7%. That’s right folks. A 20% commodity increase for the water MWD provides to local water purveyors – like the City of Fullerton; and to the OC Water District for basin replenishment.

Here’s the excerpt from the April 14, 2009 MWD meeting minutes. Read the excerpt.

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