This coming Tuesday, September 16 at 9:00 a.m., the Pima County Supervisors will consider an agenda item proposed by Supervisor Ally Miller to study the use the taxpayer funds, by supervisors to gain political support through their “donations” to various private enterprises. When you consider that the supervisors get to dole out taxpayer money to win friends and influence people, all becomes clear. The idiots on the Board are only re-elected year after year because they are spending you money to buy votes….
Chuck Huckelberry announced that he is going on vacation… just in time to miss the fallout. WILL YOU BE AT TUESDAY’S MEETING?????????
Miller exposes Pima County supervisors doling out dough
For years the Pima County Supervisors have used surplus office funds to contribute to outside organizations. The system has given supervisors a political perk using taxpayer money.
They win praise and loyalty and the taxpayers foot the bill. Those same taxpayers are left out of the loop. The contributions are made without an open meeting in which the supervisors must rationalize the use of funds.
In 2012, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously voted to eliminate the ability to use their surplus office funds, due to criticism that the donations had also led to “public accolades that many have argued give them an edge in local races where turnout is low and the value of incumbency high: recognition at community events, campaign-style advertisements placed in programs and listings as donors on popular community organization Web sites, for example,” according to the Washington Post.
The situation is identical in Pima County, Arizona, where the supervisors give public monies to private interests, and win friends. Some of those friends can be counted for contributions to re-election campaigns later.
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