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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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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5 comments:

  1. leftturnclydeApril 17, 2007 at 10:29 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  2. leftturnclydeApril 17, 2007 at 10:31 AM

    remember , evil is incompetence...
    the soft pedaling of the open space issue IS the courier agenda.

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  3. coyoteradiotheaterApril 17, 2007 at 1:09 PM

    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?

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  4. Steven AyresApril 17, 2007 at 3:09 PM

    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.

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  5. leftturnclydeApril 17, 2007 at 7:42 PM

    yup it was me ...but I like that you were on it coyote!

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