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( Reprinted for Voter Education Purposes Only. ) Term Limits Saved Taxpayers $1.1 Billion Ed Garza Wants To Change That By C.A. Stubbs Taxwatcher C. A. Stubbs extends mega thanks to the thousands of San Antonio Citizens who joined him in imposing Term Limits on the San Antonio Mayor & Council People, and for helping save taxpayers $1.1 billion dollars. The current Mayor, Ed. Garza, has run on a ticket for destroying Term Limits as we know them, and for longer terms to permit a return to the glory days of excessive and oppressive spending that existed under former Mayor Henry Cisneros. Here is information extracted from the City's own budget records. $5.9 billion was spent by the City of San Antonio in the decade ending in 1990 under the leadership of Mayor Henry Cisneros & Lila Cockrell. If their spending had grown in step with population and inflation (CPI), they would have spent approximately $3.6 billion. They overcharged us $2.3 billion! This is the unenviable record of the "Pre-Term Limits Crowd"! In the decade ending 2001, spending by the City of San Antonio will be approximately $9.1 billion. If their spending had grown in step with population and inflation (CPI) growth, they would have spent about $10.2 billion. Because of the stigma of Term Limits and other restrictions imposed on City Hall by C. A. Stubbs and An Army of Frugal Citizens, THE CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO WERE SAVED APPROXIMATELY $1.1 BILLIONS!!!!!!! Let us be clear here! For the first time since 1980, the City of San Antonio spending was more nearly in line with taxpayers ability to support that spending. Accordingly, their spending was less than what it could have been. This is the Post Term Limits record under the leadership of Mayor's, Cockrell, Wolff, and Thornton. But, a word of caution is in order. In the past 4 years under Peak & Garza, the major part of the 90's spending increase occurred under their leadership. This is a warning sign for what can be expected under new leadership in City Hall! We have heard plenty of muttering and growling from the Post Term Limits crowd that they need more time to plan and implement their programs. Literally translated, this means more time to plan and implement programs that would have spent rather than saved $1.1 billion dollars. We have been double crossed by Top Business, Top Media, Top Political, and Other Leaders whose devotion and allegiance lies in extracting the maximum from taxpayers to full-fill their wild and extravagant programs. And there you have it folks! We are certainly more appreciative of the record of the Post Term Limits Crowd, than that of their predecessors, even though they drug in their feet, they issued their propaganda, and complained about how their hands were tied because of Term Limits. WE THE PEOPLE INTENTIONALLY TIED THEIR HANDS, AND IT SAVED US $1.1 BILLION DOLLARS. NOW, ALL WE ASK IS THAT THEY KEEP THEIR COTTON PICKING GRUBBY HANDS OUT OF OUR POCKETS, AND THEY CAN BEST DO THAT BY LEAVING OUR TERM LIMITS ALONE! In next week's article I will show you the shocking reality of the major role the Chambers of Commerce have played in excessive spending; and a glimpse of the role they will be playing in gutting our Term Limits as we know them. And remember folks, their efforts are designed to overthrow our wills, and return to spending practices of the past. It is a matter of common knowledge that business does not pay taxes. Their taxes are passed on to us as a cost of their products and services. The National Taxpayers Union tells us that 25% of the cost of everything we buy from business is for the payment of their taxes. PS: Copies of the foregoing have been provided: US Term Limits www.ustermlimits.org - Paul Jacobs Pres. Washington, D. C. Tex. Comp. Public Accts. www.wosq@cpa.state.tx.us - Carole Keeton Rylander Citizens Against Gov. Waste www.cagw.org - Tom Schatz Pres. Washington, D.C. Nat. Taxpayers Union www.ntu@ntu.org - John Bethoud Pres. Washington, D.C. Tax Foundation www.taxfoundation.org -Scott Hodge Ex. Dir. Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org - Ed. J. Feulner, Jr. Pres. Washinton, D.C. Citizens For A Sound Economy www.cse.org - Paul Beckner Pres. Wash., D.C. Local Chambers of Commerce And, The Local Media & Political Community * * * Copyright 2001 RG Griffing Publications ( Reprinted for Voter Education Purposes Only. )

( Reprinted for Voter Education Purposes Only. ) Biggest Waste of Taxpayer Money EDITORS' PICK: CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE If you've been following the stoogery of the City Attorney's office, it's apparent that Frank Garza and Co. aren't representing the City's legal interests -- well, maybe the City, if you mean by that elected stooges, but certainly not the Citi-zens. Most recently, the City Attorney's office wasted $105,000 in taxpayer money trying to protect City Council from its constitutional ignorance in the Esperanza lawsuit. Federal Judge Orlando García KO'd the City, and ruled it had violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Texas Open Meetings Act when the Council and Mayor defunded Esperanza on political grounds. In March, the CA's office took revenge against a good City cop who told on some bad boys in blue. The City sued the good cop -- who had already won a $470,000 settlement in another court after his supervisor demoted him for whistleblowing -- alleging he had filed a frivolous lawsuit. As retribution against the good cop, the City spent $16,000 to send him into bankruptcy. Recent contract snafus are so legendary, they've become part of the City's slang. A tourist exclaiming "I was standing in front of the Hard Rock Cafe when somebody Yanaguana'd me" would really mean "Some scumbag pickpocketed me on the River Walk." Or "My boss caught me with my Watson Wyatt in the air," could translate to "I was Xeroxing my butt on the company copiers." Speaking of copiers, soon a new term will enter SA's colorful lexicon: Danka. The City can't find a contract between Danka, a copier company, and the public library. Danka is supposed to give a portion of copier fees to the library, but has coughed up very little dough, and none for about five years. Yet, without a contract, the City could be "Danka'd." All this ineptitude is in light of the $200,000 budgeted to implement the findings of the City Attorney's "contract management performance review." And the $371,258 allocated to create a new division in the City's Internal Review Office -- six positions that focus on auditing the City's major contracts. And the $134,255 slated for two additional Assistant City Attorneys to replace the ones that were moved to the impotent Contracts Division, which was created to "implement the City Attorney Action Plan." Feeling Danka'd yet? LISA SORG Copyright © San Antonio Current 2000 ( Reprinted for Voter Education Purposes Only. )

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