Not Impressed with Portantino
Senator Anthony Portantino touted his newly written bills that would authorize suicide prevention hotline numbers on student identification cards and raise the age limit for purchase of long guns to 21 (“Portantino’s SB 972 Passes Committee,” March 22).
Laudable as these bills may be, do you know that then-Assemblyman Portantino voted in 2010 for a bill to give subsidized tuition to illegal immigrants at a time when 140,000 students did not enroll in community colleges because they could not get into classes (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 2010)?
Do you know that your newly minted senator voted last year to raise the gasoline tax by 12 cents per gallon, effective Nov. 1, 2017, and by 17.3 cents per gallon, effective July 1, 2019?
If you are a property owner, what do you think of the proposed Senate Constitutional Amendment (SCA 6), now in the “suspense file,” that would make it easy for Portantino and his colleagues to impose new parcel taxes, free of the two-thirds vote requirement of Proposition 13?
Had enough?
Les Hammer
Pasadena