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Steve Lopez, one of my favorite local agitators, writes a weekly column in the L.A. Times.
Recently he outdid himself, skewering our county supervisors for their devotion to their (multiple) large luxury gas-eaters provided at taxpayer expense:

http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-me-lopez23jul23,0,7737488.column?coll=ktla-news-1

A couple of my favorite parts:

(Supervisor) Antonovich has a personal driver, paid for by us, who ferries him about. The driver heads up to the boss's house in the older-model Cadillac in the morning, parks it, and takes Antonovich to work in the newer Cadillac, a 2004 model. At the end of the day, the routine is reversed.

If what I witnessed is a daily exchange, one supervisor seems to be tying up two Cadillacs, one of which is almost always idle. Antonovich should at least keep the doors of the car open: We could cut the homeless population in half.

Don't these guys know we're at war in the oil fields of the Middle East? If the size of the cars were based on the size of their accomplishments, the supervisors would all be driving Mini Coopers.

tarabell

I gave up on cali when they passed prop #13 years ago when I lived there. If I remember right they lowered property tax and raised mass transit fares. As if folks use mass transit to start with and the lowering of tax turned out to be a lie.

Since then Ive just set back and laughed along with one of my co-workers that was raised in HB, Orange, Co. The Fed. Court out there can be very funny also.

Hi Tarabell:

___Thank you for this news worthy item.

___I can only hope this kind of practice will be eliminated across all of California’s local governments given the immense waste of not only tax payer $’s but also the almost obscene waste of fuel. I can only hope someone at an even higher level of government will take notice to this Host’s findings and end the practice (abuse) immediately!

___Good Luck

___Wayne