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It’s About Regulatory Relief on
Small Business and
Pension Reform, Period
By
Councilman Rick Bosetti, Candidate for State Assembly
Rick Bosetti is a
Redding City Councilmember and candidate for Assembly who
authored the first city pension reform to pass in California.
Larger metropolitan cities such as San Jose and San Diego soon
followed.
There has been a lot of negative and inaccurate mudslinging from
outside groups (supporting both Brian Dahle and myself) and the
Dahle campaign directly in this race for the 1st
Assembly District. The Redding Record Searchlight just called
one of Dahle’s most recent hits on me regarding taxes as
“preposterous.” They also concluded, “Rick Bosetti has been on
the council for six years, and in that time the city has not
raised taxes. Not little taxes, not big taxes. Not once. And
there's no such thing as a mattress tax.”
While I’m grateful for support from the business community, it’s
important to keep the race for the 1st Assembly
District focused on the issues most important to the North State
– creating jobs and implementing pension reform. This is all my
campaign and I have talked about and I will continue to share my
sizeable plans for California to our North State voters as we
approach Election Day.
I will, however, also continue to be critical of Brian Dahle’s
government union support of over $100,000 and their influence on
him and his campaign; it’s the large donkey in the room. Brian
still has refused to talk about meaningful pension reform and
waffles on Proposition 32, which will loosen both corporate and
big labor influence on Sacramento. It’s sad.
Without real pension reform and business regulation reform in
Sacramento to stimulate small business development, our state is
doomed. The government unions and Gov. Brown’s answer to our
budgets and economy - more taxes. Higher taxes will push off any
economic recovery for decades. Raising taxes to get out of a
recession is like running a marathon backwards. You’re focusing
on what is already behind you as opposed to looking ahead and
planning for the future.
Folks, as a Redding City Councilman, I, along with my cohorts,
assessed our problems and addressed real change. We looked at
major holes in our budget and put pension reform on the ballot
and we won; both Republican and Democrats recognized the need
for change. Now, we are in the black and also have our public
safety and fire station staffing back to the same levels that
they were at before the economy took a crash. In addition, we
also cut city fees, which in turn created over 700 new jobs in
the last few months alone. If we can to it, so should
California.
I’m willing to stand up for the North State and put California
back in the black. Once Prop 32 passes and the government union
influence is removed from Sacramento, we should immediately
address meaningful pension reform and target legislation that
alleviates regulations on small business so they can create more
jobs. I’m sure some of the other newly elected California State
legislators will feel the same.
Businesses throughout the North State understand the need for
change and I’ve received countless business endorsements,
including: The Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce, California
Small Business Association, Shasta Association of Realtors,
California Realtors Association, Black Bear Diners, the Greater
Redding Chamber of Commerce, Shasta Regional Medical Center,
Sierra Pacific Industries, Shasta Builders Exchange, Shasta Farm
Supply and Shasta Livestock Auction.
It would be an honor to have your support on Nov. 6th
because we are all in this together.
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