Measure Y Supporter Rages at Doubter
Who Asked about 802 Police

Don Link wrote:

Mr. Pine is incorrect in his assertion that there could be 63 new officers funded by Measure Y taxes AND the funding necessary to maintain the current 739 sworn positions in OPD cut at the same time. If the latter occurs, the taxation for Measure Y mandates ceases.

This arrangement is spelled out in Measure Y. I am not a lawyer, so I spoke to someone who is--Mark Morodomi in the City Attorney's office. He wrote the CA's impartial analysis that appears on the ballot which states that what I have said is the case. Moreover, in a conversation with him on that specific point, he reiterated that that is what the Measure says.

Is Mr. Pine an attorney and an expert on ordinances and ballot measures as Mr. Morodomi is? Whose word would you take on this? If you believe Mr. Pine and his cohorts, I have several very nice bridges to sell you.
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It's one thing for someone to stand in the town square at noon and proclaim that the sun is not shining. It is very much another to believe that person's loony assertion.

Mr. Pine, you have the right to say it, but saying it does not make it true. I characterize your claims on this matter as intellectually dishonest and a deliberate distortion designed to confuse the electorate. A trick learned from the Bush campaign? (Message on City-managed Internet group PSA4, Sept. 20, 2004).