The county elections office has posted the arguments for and against Measure A online. This is the stuff that will show up in your voter information pamphlet. You can download the PDF file here.

Notably, there are actually opposition arguments this time around. There wasn’t one filed for the Measure G election; Alliance of Contra Costa Taxpayers Chairman Ken Hambrick (who has sent several letters to the editor lambasting the district) said his organization had planned to but missed the deadline. Now, Hambrick and others, including Lafayette Taxpayers Association founder Don Lively, are part of the group that filed an opposition argument and the rebuttal to the Measure A campaign’s argument.

I spoke with Contra Costa Taxpayers Association Executive Director Kris Hunt earlier today and she told me while the group’s board voted Friday to officially oppose Measure A, they won’t launch a formal campaign, instead focusing on providing information to support their opposition on their Web site and the occasional letter to the editor.

In addition to passing out fliers and talking to community members, that’s what Hambrick said his group will do. Which to me sounds like a campaign, but technically to be an “official” campaign requiring paperwork to be filed with the state, you have to spend more than $1,000. So in addition to the fact that there doesn’t appear to be any unifying “No on Measure A” group, we can probably assume the ACCT likely isn’t going to spend $1,000 at Kinkos and thus doesn’t need to file formal paperwork as an opposition committee.