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Politicians exhort citizenry to participate

1 percent of property taxes.

Tocut back on expenses, the cityhas

taken measures that included recycling

all its printer cartridges, changing

its telephone and Web systems to

a less expensive plan and putting all

public works contracts out for bid. It

also implemented a utility users tax

approved by voters, Dekosa said.

Yet,despite the financial hardships

the city governments face, DeRosa

said it's important to let officials

'know what is needed of them.

"Fivepeople make the decisions for

this city (Cathedral City). Ifyou allow

us to make them in a vacuum, shame

on you," DeRosa said.

Bernice Zubrinsky, a member of the

Women's Political Action Network,

said she thought both speakers did a

good job at giving perspective on the

way money influences politics.

"I thought it was terrific. I thought

it was very, very informative,"

Zubrinsky said.

BY TERRIA SMITH

The Desert Sun

Former Assemblywoman Julie

Bornstein and Cathedral City Mayor

Kathleen DeRosa encourage their

. constituents to flextheir own political

muscle through civic participation

and campaign donations.

The two made presentations' as

speakers at the Women's PoliticalAction

Network's Saturday event focusing

on "Economy in Politics."

Bornstein, whose topic was "Money

and Politics" talked about her

fundraising efforts during her campaign

for community college trustee

with College of the Desert, California

Assembly and U.S. Congress.

In the race for 45th Congressional

District against incumbent Rep.

Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs,

Bornstein said her campaign cost

more than $350,000, while Bono

Mack spent just under

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