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"'s.. ...."1 I I RES 0 L UTI 0 N ---------.....- Ii o. 1377 OPPOSITION TO PROPOSITION NO. 10 ON NOVEMBER 4, 1952 GENERAL ELEC~ION BALLOT WHEREAS, Proposition No. 10 would prohibit the proper and economical use of public funds for obvious public purposes by the joint action of all of the cities and other public agencies of California, and WHEREAS, Proposition No. 10 does not prohibit the separate expenditure of public funds to urge the legislation of interest to the City of.' Redwood City, but merely prevents the City of Redwood City f.'rom joining her sister municipalities in urging the adoption of State and Federal legislation of interest to all cities, or opposing the enactment of measures which would be immediately harmful to city residents, and WHEREAS, Proposition No. 10, which in no way relates to pensions, is advanced by pension promoter George McLain to punish those who opposed and defeated a former McLain pension program, and WHER}~S, Proposition No. 10 does not prohibit private interests from influencing legislation on a collective basis, but only prohibits collective representation of public interests and agencies, and WHEREAS, Proposition No. 10 permanently destroys or se- verely damages a countless number of quasi-public agencies whose only purpose is the advancement of good government and the public interest, such as the League of California Cities, the Shoreline Planning, District Attorneys, the irrigation districts, fire chiefs, supervisors, schoo~ trustees, and school administrators' associations, and the California Conference of Social Workers, and WHEREAS, Proposition No. 10 would cause the wasteful and, extravagant expenditure of public funds to do individually what - 1 -