SO.CA.TA Wants Your Help Gathering Signatures to Get Transit Protections on the Ballot

Help put our money where his mouth is.

Sick of transit funding being stolen by the state and want to do something about it? You can help gather signatures for placing on the November ballot the Local Taxpayer, Public Safety and Transportation Act. A packet of petitions can be requested via this online form. They will come in the snail mail with detailed instructions. The deadline to get petitions in for validation is mid-April. I have some and will in the coming weeks be gathering signatures on buses, trains and at transit nodes like Union Station.

MeanerMina in a previous post issued a call to arms for advocates:

For more on the Governor's plan to rob transit to fill the funding void in the state budget, check out these two articles from last week:

• Schwarzenegger's Folly: Rumored Budget Would Slash Transit Funds and Gas Tax
• Statewide/Local Advocates Slam Schwarzenegger's Rumored End-Around Cut on Transit Funding