You’d Get a Straighter Story from the Real Used-Car Salesmen

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

If you’re going to pull a fast one, a used car lot is probably the place to do it.
 
So there’s a sort of poetic justice in the fact that Senator George Runner has chosen to spend Friday afternoon at a Lancaster car dealership. It’s the latest stop in the Republicans’ media tour urging legislators to "stop pork barrel spending" and "stop treating the taxpayers like an A.T.M."
 
Runner wants to stop pork-barrel spending all right -- he wants to stop the barrel at his front door and have himself a party.
 
You see, while Runner is railing against out of control spending, he’s is also simultaneously sponsoring a ballot initiative the Legislative Analyst estimates will cost us taxpayers $952 million a year -- all for programs that he’s picked out.
 
Among them? Millions of dollars every year for television and radio ads touting Runner’s own last ballot initiative. And like his last effort, Runner’s new billion-dollar boondoggle doesn’t contain dollar one to cover its costs.
 
Give Runner credit for this much: he’s not treating taxpayers like an A.T.M.

He’s playing them for suckers instead.
 
Let the buyer beware.