Thousands of pages of emails between transportation officials obtained by a group opposing Measure B show that BART officials wouldn’t give assurance to the Valley Transportation Authority that the $42 million raised by the sales tax hike would pay to operate BART…

My company left the SVLG when it began to support a new, job-killing tax in almost every election, including this one. Sales taxes have eviscerated Silicon Valley’s manufacturing base… That’s why there’s so little silicon left in Silicon Valley…

We’ve heard this before. Measure B backers are suggesting that Measure B is the only additional tax needed to build the BART line to Fremont. If it is so, where are the new cost estimates to build the line? Instead, VTA is doing all it can to hide crucial information, knowing full well that additional taxes and transit cuts will be required.
Eight years ago, Carl Guardino wrote in the ballot argument for the 2000 Measure A sales tax: “… pays operating costs for BART, rail, and buses for decades without …

“In my over three decades in the governmental surface transportation industry…I have never encountered any transit agency that has consistently taken so much money from the taxpayers and produced so little in the way of transit ridership…”

“…We have tried over the years to see the polling. The leadership group is very selective. They will show you some questions, some information…”