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* The recent votes by the Transportation Corridor Agencies and the Orange County Transportation Authority turn my stomach.
All of these organizations are large public agencies that collect and spend millions of taxpayers’ dollars.
Yet the boards for these agencies are not directly elected and should have no authority to decide their own fate. The public should decide in the absence of directly elected oversight.
It is a sad state of affairs that undemocratically chosen boards, handed perks and powers, have the hubris to pretend that they can objectively decide whether to consolidate or not.
Not since Macbeth has a ruler voluntarily turned over the keys to the castle.
WILLIAM R. MITCHELL
Chairman
Orange County
Common Cause
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