By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) — Some suburban mayors say they were wrongly identified as being in support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed gas tax hike.
Dave Bennett, the executive director of the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, says that local lawmakers accidentally were listed on a letter supporting Emanuel’s tax hike effort.
Emanuel’s office sent out a news release Tuesday stating that the Caucus recommended the 19-cents-per-gallon tax be increased by as much as 30 cents, but Bennett says he made a list of public officials who the organization believes could support a capital bill for infrastructure improvement.
“I had no idea that it was going to be published,” Bennett told the Northwest Herald Wednesday. Bennett says his organization has not endorsed a 30-cent-per gallon tax, and that the list was released as an accident.
He says they do support the idea of a transportation funding bill.
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