Political Letter: Dissolve IFPD
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Wow, IFPD wants to double your taxes to pay its self-inflicted litigation bills and calling it a pay increase.
Now IFPD’s ego wants to put firefighters into a failed and closed San Jacinto city firehouse. In your face, Cal Fire. Grand juries be damned.
Put an end to this feral pig. Dissolve IFPD.
Jeff Smith
Pine Cove
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