Re No on Measure E. Don’t be duped by City Hall. (Oct. 24): The editorial opposing Measure E contained information that was woefully misleading. The article referenced a doubling of arts funding that intimated that any additional receipts from this measure would go to nonessential services and urged the reader to groan aloud. Your math isnt mathing here; the San Diego City Council all the way back in 2012 committed to Penny for the Arts, a promise to fund the arts at 1% of Transient Occupancy Tax receipts over 10 years ago. This promise has been long expected and never fulfilled. Notwithstanding that San Diegos tax rate lower is than many cities such as Chula Vista, Montgomery, Alabama, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana — it is your writers highlighting this decade-old pledge for arts funding in order to cast doubt on the efficacy of additional funding provided by Measure E that is really causing me to groan aloud.

— James Eischen, Mission Beach