Since Anaheim council member Kris Murray’s Anaheim Taxpayer Protection Act was tabled recently, the Anaheim Council Majority was able to use a simple 3-2 majority to pass a new gate tax for public speakers at each Anaheim City Council meeting. The new $100 per person tax carries a surcharge of $5 a word and has a bonus $100 surcharge per word for Denis Fitzgerald.
The new gate tax will dramatically shorten city council meetings and funds collected will go towards a special account designed to restore the pay of Mayor Tom Tait’s executive assistant Mishal Montgomery. And even with that caveat, Tait still voted no. The new account for Montgomery puts opponents of the gate tax in a quandary — support their sainted Mayor’s wishes or ignore it and put money of Mishal’s coffers and hope it doesn’t incur his wrath.
In response, Fitzgerald, James Robert Reade, and CATER lawyer Greg Diamond jointly announced a new pre-meeting bake sale to raise funds so one of them can address the council every two weeks. Fitzgerald keeps eating the donuts, Reade can’t market effectively to Anaheim’s Latino community, and Diamond needs to bring in another attorney to help with the paperwork for the new business venture, which oddly enough, expects to be more financially rewarding than his law practice.
Disneyland has been a bad influence on Anaheim too many resort jobs. Republicans complain about the high immigrant population, according to pew Hispanic Latinos immigrants moved form Construction to leisure and hospitality when the economy collapse the city needs to pushed a new job source if they want Anaheim to be a more mixed income city in the poorer area near Disneyland. If Dems want more influence in Anaheim they need to pushed new types of jobs that appeal to younger people not just immigrants. This is why San Diego changed politically while Anaheim didn’t.