Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Mike Antonovich have stepped up their attacks on the MTA's tactics to suppport Prop. R's $40 billion sales tax hike.
The supervisors condemned spending more than $1 million to send all the nearly 4 million households in the county a 16-page color brochure promoting the tax hike, which mostly builds a subway and light rail for the Westside to justify densification.
They are particularly critical of County Counsel Roy Fortner for okaying the brochure. "I think you made a drastic mistake, a very drastic mistake," Molina said menacingly.
Antonvich called the brochure "propaganda," adding, "Even a high school government student would tell you that this is a political mailing,"
If the supervisors are serious about going after Fortner, they need to press him on why he hasn't issued an opinion on the mayor's campaign getting money from these special interests when there's a tough law on the books authored by former state Sen. Tom Hayden that sharply tightened restrictions on the MTA because of its long history of scandal and abuse of the public's money.
Ron Kaye