- These amendments will delay the purchase of vital public safety and life saving equipment, such as bulletproof vests, ambulances, and fire trucks placing Prince George's families in danger.
- Ballot questions B,F,C and G will give Prince George’s politicians a $23 million dollar per year slush fund with no accountability, no oversight.
- The $23 million dollar slush fund is diverting money that could be spent on public safety, education, and vital life saving services.
- B,F,C and G is about power, not oversight. Ballot questions B, F, C and G put politics in the place of process and procedure.
- Potentially the greatest losers of B,F,C,G will be small and minority owned business.
- Existing county vendor relationships will be compromised, and potentially severed due to the county’s shift in business practices from procurement to politics.
- B,F,C and G add more red tape when responding to the needs of social and emergency preparedness agencies by requiring that new positions go through the government's long legislative approval process.
- Voters must send the county government a message and vote NO on ballot questions B, F, C and G.
Former County Executive Wayne K. Curry and former governor Parris N. Glendening have publicly expressed their concerns about these shortsighted and ineffective ballot initiatives. [Washington Post, October 15, 2006]
John Thompson, the incoming President of the Prince George's County Chamber of Commerce, strongly opposes B,F,C and G because he believes it will severely harm the progress Small and Minority Businesses have made in Prince George's County.
Vote NO because these charter changes will hurt public safety, education, and impact emergency preparedness for years to come in Prince George's County.
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