When it comes to listening to the voice of the people at the ballot box, Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen is a hypocrite
In a few weeks, under the supervision and direction of Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen (pictured above), the city of Elk Grove will embark on a journey that will initially cost over $300 million, with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to follow. We are speaking of the city’s plans to build and relocate the Sacramento Zoo to Elk Grove.
The Elk Grove Planning Commission has already granted the scheme a rubber-stamp unanimous approval. Unless one of Mayor Singh-Allen’s four councilmen objects and votes no – something that will generate the mayor’s political wrath – the project is nonetheless headed to approval.
A project of such magnitude should be put to a people’s vote. The mayor and her four councilmen have ignored this idea.
It has been argued that this project is as popular as the mayor, city council, city staff, and the Sacramento Zoological Society claim, but it is to at least an advisory vote of Elk Grove voters and confirm this assertion and put it to bed forever. Alas, it’s full steam ahead, damn the torpedo’s for Singh-Allen.
Independent of this, the mayor has posted information on social media that shows that voters should have a say in important matters outside her purview as mayor.
See Exhibit One below.
In case the copy in the image is not legible, it contains a quote from Singh-Allen, which she published on social media, from an LA Times story about retail theft and possible changes to Proposition 47 that says the following:
“We can’t fix this without going back to the ballot box,” said Bobbie Singh-Allen, president of the American Petroleum and Convenience Store Assn., a supporter of the initiative, which represents nearly 2,000 convenience stores in California. “We don’t want to just leave it to the Legislature.”
When it comes to something of her parochial interest, Ms. Singh-Allen is all about letting voters have a voice. However, when it comes to something that she is pulling the strings on, like the zoo project, she effectively says screw the voters and their voice; I know what is best for them!
If this isn’t hypocrisy incarnate, what is?
