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Got an e-mail this morning sent to moi and a bunch of other local media folks — including Inga and Jim Scott — from the local Home Builders Association. (Full text below.) As we've been scribbling, the HBA is saber-rattling over proposed development fee increases on the way to a probable lawsuit. The politically interesting bit of red meat here: The building industry is ramping up rhetoric against the Thomas roads money ($630 million for the city): "...the City of Bakersfield has a unique problem. Bakersfield must prove that it can match funds allocated to the Thomas Roads Improvement Program ..." The association is no stranger to politics. (If anyone has forgotten the anonymous smear ads of the 2006 era, when it went by the BIA moniker, I'll post more background.) Back in those days, though, the pro-Thomas contingent were the building industry "good" guys. Now, the HBA is bucking against Thomas-necessitated fee increases. Strange...
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