San Bernardino County’s most tenacious watchdog, the Red Brennan Group plans to challenge the constitutionality of the county’s new charter amendments voters approved as Measure D in the November 8 General Election.
“Mailers for Measure D were completely deceptive,” said Red Brennan Group President Tom Murphy, “and that’s one thing, but when the title and text of the measure are misleading that’s entirely different.” Entitled ‘Amendments to the County Charter for Taxpayer Protection and Government Reform’ the good government watchdog group contends voters were duped by Measure D which essentially maintains the status quo.
Murphy called it a scheme by county supervisors to bury a 2020 ballot measure for real government reform that voters passed with a super majority. The reference was to Measure K which would have limited supervisor pay to $5,000 a month and one four-year term in office. Never enacted, Measure K has been bogged down in the courts since passage. Measure D may well be on a parallel track.
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