Redding Citizens BEWARE Politician Past and Present Are Stealing Your Land and Birthright.

The lastest SPEAK YOUR PIECE article found in

your printed paper is NOT showing up on your

electronic version. Since it is a political piece and

promoting the so called "safety" tax issues, can

we assume this was done on purpose, to ward

off any comment? Or just maybe an over-sight?

The writer list many good things these tax measures

will bring the city and county. Sadly, he has a bad

memory, there is not guarentee what-so-ever that

voters would actually get any of the promised

benefits being touted by the promoters of these

measures. However, there is plenty of evidence

that suggest, if these measures were lucky enough

to be passed by voters, those holding the purse

strings will do exactly what they've done in the

past, use these funds as a blank check to help

fund or off-set the funding of pensions funded and

unfunded, pluse the new pensions required if we

actually allow RPD to hire more officers, when a

recent study, costing $155,000 of tax payers

money found, that RPD did not have a officer

shortage when compared to other cities the same

size nationwide, but it did have a scheduling

problem. Evidence about how city management

and councils will react and treat such information

can be found when this first draft of the study

was kept from the public (voters) citizens with

even talk about setting it a fire so it could never

be seen.

Not to mention the funds needed already exist

in the general fund. Sounds just like the South

City Playground, someone has their eyes on

these funds maybe to help acquire them a

piece of citizen owned land to compliment

their private businesses, when they leave office.

NO ACCOUNTIBILITY NO NEW SO CALLED

"SAFETY" TAXES PERIOD.