A1: "City officials agree 1-percent sales tax should be permanent"
In the followup on the announcement on Sunday, Cindy Barks once again firmly soft-pedals the impact on open-space acquisition from Rob Behnke's initiative. Clearly City officials have some reservations about it, but we don't learn much about why. It feels like this story went to press a few days before it was ready.
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remember , evil is incompetence...
the soft pedaling of the open space issue IS the courier agenda.
Actually, when you consider how very little of the orginal tax was used for Open Space issues, I think what we are seeing is these politicos feel they no longer need to sweeten the deal with Lefty voters by pretending to use the money to advance what's considered a Lefty agenda item.
And, hey, who pulled their post up above here? Someone mispoke from their City hall computer?
I'm relatively confident that no politico ever meant to sweeten the deal. If I recall correctly the initiative adding open space to the mix came from citizens.
So now we get to see whether we have to deal with a competing measure or a 'No on XXX' campaign. Given that we've got eight years before anything needs to be done, I'd personally prefer the latter.
Lefty deleted and corrected his own post, btw, just as I've done above.
yup it was me ...but I like that you were on it coyote!
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