My kingdom for a parking spot?
(The Press-Enterprise/Shirin Parsavand)
It’s not easy to find a parking spot for a giant wooden horse – especially in downtown Riverside.
Brandon Powers, a spokesman for the No on 93 campaign, found that out when he began driving a wooden replica of the Trojan horse around the state.
The campaign argues that supporters of the ballot measure are trying to fool people into thinking it strengthens term limits, when in fact it lengthens the amount of time a legislator can serve in either the Assembly or Senate.
Powers planned to park the 20-foot trailer carrying the wooden horse near White Park in Riverside on Wednesday afternoon, but couldn’t find three parking spaces in a row. He settled for a spot outside Michael’s hamburgers on University Avenue, across from the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce.
He said the horse, wearing a sign reading “No on Prop. 93. Don’t be fooled!” drew plenty of questions from Michael’s patrons during lunch and during an earlier stop in San Bernardino.
The horse was named after the one of Greek mythology that hid soldiers who launched a siege on Troy. No one was inside the anti-Prop. 93 horse, but that didn’t stop people from asking about its innards.
“(Assembly speaker) Fabian Nunez is going to jump out and try to raise your taxes,” Powers told one man.
Prop. 93 would reduce, from 14 years to 12 years, the maximum amount of time someone could serve in the Legislature. A person could serve for 12 years in one house.
Currently legislators are limited to six years in the Assembly and eight years in the Senate.
— Shirin Parsavand
Sparsavand@PE.com
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