Watts: How Unions and Democrats Steal Local Elections

How Unions and Democrats Steal Local Elections

By William Watts, Treasurer, Patriot PAC, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views, 3/12/14

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Recently the government run La Canada Unified School District stole a local election, gaming voter regulations with the help of the democrats and the teachers union to pass a $450.00 a year parcel tax that will last for seven years. There is no way the District could win two thirds of the vote by the local property owners unless they did not play fair. The parcel tax was prompted by the fact that the State confiscates the property tax revenue that is generated by the property owners in the Unified District and gives most of that money to other government school districts. There is plenty of tax revenue in a community with homes that average $1.7 million in value to operate the wasteful local government schools with plenty of money to spare, but the State does not allow the local school district to keep much of their money. So, the unions, democrats, RINOs, and anyone that derives income from the government schools came up with a scheme to get more revenue. It is not as if these wealthy residents do not volunteer enough by donating millions every year to the La Canada Educational Foundation which asserts the claim that our great government schools add value to the homes in the community. Liberals, who run the government schools always, need more of other people’s money so they can waste more of others people’s money.

There are two points of questionable voter activity. Our friends on the left are always telling us that we all need to be fair, equal, and with no injustices to others, unless, of course, these bigots need more money; then the rules change to their benefit. The rules of fairness and equality only apply to their enemies. Anything goes with the left, and they will tell you anything to justify their stance. The first issue is that each parcel is taxed per parcel. However each parcel may have more than one registered voter living at that property. Any commercial property, in the District is also affected, but that property owner is not allowed to vote since legal voter registration (regulated by the State) has to be at your home and not your place of business. Putting that aside, most properties have at least two, if not more voters, living on the property. All of them are allowed to vote, but the tax is on the one property. So, only one property should only be entitled to one vote. The District campaigned for their behalf at taxpayer expense and the special interest union goons made telephone calls to entice the voters to vote yes for the tax. The end result, of course, is; properties with more than one resident received more than one vote. Is it fair that more than one person can vote to tax one parcel, for or against the tax? To be fair only one vote should be allowed for one parcel, but that, according to the unions would not serve their selfish interests. They want the tax to pass, so they can get more money in the form of bribes (dues) from the teachers that are forced (no choice here) to join their union. Stuffing the ballot box meets their ends, so that equates to being fair. It is not how you win, but just win at all costs.

The second sneaky little trick the democrats, and their union buddies use is to allow for an exemption to the over age 65 property owners. The over 65 crowd, in La Canada, are many and, if they wish, get a tax exemption. They can vote for, or against the tax, but are exempt from paying the tax. Take a guess on how they voted? We can see all of them saying to themselves that they do not have to pay the tax and the government schools hold the property values high, so they benefit when they sell their property. It was time for them to vote yes and let someone else pay the tax to keep their property values high. Therefore they vote to tax other property owners while they do not have to pay the tax. Now we know where that term “taxation without representation” came from. This is a typical Marxist trick titled “using other people’s money”. The liberals should be proud of their accomplishments. What comes as no surprise is that in a community where 51% of all registered democrats do not know that the earth revolves around the sun, not one of those bright democrats complained about the unfair election. In fact all of them supported the unfair election that would make any liberal leaning person proud of cheating their neighbors. The only good news is that just over 31% of the voters were not fooled even with almost no opposition to the measure. The bad news is that 31% was not enough to defeat the measure.

Only those that have a dog in the fight should be allowed to vote. For the election to be fair, as the unions and democrats should support, only those that have to pay the tax should be allowed to vote for or against it. Only one vote per parcel would be a fair election. Anything else is stuffing the ballot box in favor of the measure and is wrong.