San Francisco looted region's water system, diverted millions into city coffers...

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/15/02 | Chuck Finnie

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Copyright 2002 San Francisco Chronicle .

TODAY Bay Area water system in peril.

MONDAY Public power vision betrayed.

Over the past 20 years, San Francisco officials raided the city's vaunted Hetch Hetchy Water and Power system of hundreds of millions of dollars, leaving the Bay Area's largest water supply vulnerable to earthquake, drought and decay.

[SeenTheLight]

Vote No on ALL bond measures in the November election. Let's not give the crooks any more money!

[hedgetrimmer]

City of Santa Cruz has done the same thing with a 30 year bond passed in 1958 to finance the Zayante reservoir, which was never built and the money NEVER accounted for.

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[Erasmus]

California, the triumph of civil engineering over common sense.

Cf. the movie Chinatown.

[OregonRancher]

Back in the eighties, I knew a guy who was a stationary power engineer in city maintainence. His Dr. got him a temp disability with the city due to stress on the job. It turned out that the stress was the result of not getting along with fellow employees, who didn't like him. It took him a year but in the end, the city granted him a 100% disablity due to his stress, payable till he would have retired, and then he would have gotten full retirement. All this non taxed. This guy was a first class scam artist but what really burned me, was SF let him get away with this.

[snopercod]

Say, how is Willie Brown's solar power program for SF going?

Maybe he could just build some solar-powered desalinization plants?

[Gritty]

Since 1979, (the amounts used by city politicians's) ...

...more than $236 million... during Feinstein
...$95 million during Art Agnos
...more than $104 million during Frank Jordan
...more than $233 million through Willie Brown's administration

Hmmmm. Is there some sort of a pattern here with these Liberal Democrats?

And now thay want to raise billions in bond issues and raise the water rates?

Isn't this just a huge hidden tax to pay for their past programs?

[anniegetyourgun]

A city and a state run by lib/dems can only come to ruin.

[Publius6961]

Rudy Nothenberg, who ran the city's Public Utilities Commission during Mayor Dianne Feinstein's administration, defended the fund transfers, saying, "There is nothing wrong in my view with using the (Hetch) Hetchy power resource to generate money for the general fund, which pays for cops, parks and recreation and everything that people hold dear."

The usual bureaucratic slimeball's song and dance.

Somebody ought to tell him we are wise to it.
Spend on supporting perverts and all sorts of absurd programs and then there is no money for "essential services.

He really must believe that the taxpayer is stupid.

Wait...
Never mind.

[PoisedWoman]

, more than $236 million in Hetch Hetchy power revenues were transferred during Feinstein's administration ending in 1987; $95 million during Art Agnos' four-year administration ending in 1991; more than $104 million during Frank Jordan's administration ending in 1995; and more than $233 million through Willie Brown's administration.

Why am I not surprised that Fineswine and Brown stole the most? But I'm sure they fully support free sex-change operations for their constituents.

[doug from upland]

San Francisco is a city lost. Imagine a city paying for sex change operations for its employees. It is liberalism gone wild.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Isn't this just a huge hidden tax to pay for their past programs?

As Gomer Pyle would exclain: "Well Goooolleee!"

"Sheeple Fleecing 101":

1) Skim cash from revenue sources and bond initiatives that were originally sold as, and intended for use in, infrastructure management and expansion (roads, bridges, water systems, schools, etc.)

2) Use these funds to expand socialist government programs, government bureacracy (salaries), and to reward political supporters (payoffs).

3) Allow the infrastructure to degrade to perilous levels.

4) Infgorm the (incredibly gullible) sheeple that a dire condition exists that can only be solved by bond issuance and fee (tax) increases.

5) Laugh all the way to the bank after the sheeple cave in at the next election cycle.

6) Repeat until the sheeple wise up.

There you have it -- "Sheeple Fleecing 101".

[RobbyS]

Great plot for a disaster movie, though. The Johnstown flood on a massive scale.

[okie01]

First, Cal ISO.

Now, Hetch Hetchy.

And Californians still believe that Democrat politicians running public utilities is a good idea?

I wonder what's next...

[rockfish59]

It's called 'robbing Harvey Milk to pay Harvey Firestein!'

[RobbyS]

The people voting for the Democrats are used to third world public utilities and they get more numerous every year.

[Grampa Dave]

This is exactly why the rats from Davis on down wanted and still want to run our public utilities.

Then they can loot the proceeds, charge what they want to charge to whom.

That is the ultimate fascist dream! When they control the utilities, railroads and all public service revenue areas, they will then move to control businesses.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See this regarding the sheeple in New Jersey and Toreccilli:

The New York Times reports on the mental anguish of New Jersey Dems forced to choose between voting for a crook and a Republican for Senator.

This is Jane Galt's Blog!----posted by Jane Galt at 9:18 AM | Comments [32]

[okie01]

This is exactly why the rats from Davis on down wanted and still want to run our public utilities.

Then they can loot the proceeds, charge what they want to charge to whom.

To 'Rat politicians, the gross margins on utilities become simply another "revenue stream". Like taxes...