Opinion: Jon Coupal: There’s election fraud and then there’s election fraud
The risk of election fraud has been a national topic of conversation, but while some people have been focused on mail-in ballots and voting technology, a different type of corruption has been flying under the radar: the use of public funds to campaign for tax increases.
From January to March 2017, the County of Los Angeles spent almost $1 million in public funds on a multimedia campaign urging voters to support Measure H, a one-quarter percent sales tax increase to pay for homelessness services. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission as well as a lawsuit seeking to enforce the law that bars the public treasury from taking sides in an election.
California taxpayers are all too familiar with deceptive practices in initiative campaigns, either statewide or local proposals. A measure that claims to “protect taxpayers” or guarantees “strict accountability” is often a tax increase, or a bond measure that saddles voters with thirty years of debt payments. The campaign committees behind these anti-taxpayer measures frequently include the word “taxpayer” in their names, like “Taxpayers for Common Sense” or “Taxpayers for Traffic Relief.
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