[joe fonebone]

Alaw needs to be passed that all elections are to be held in november....too many people on vacation, turnout is low, and this stuff usually passes because of this...one election a year for all stuff.....

[VanDeKoik]

This is how they got that stupid bus millage passed.

Just keep putting back on the ballot over and over again, each time making sure they can muster enough lib nut cases to get to the polls.

In Wyoming’s case, they will have to work their illegal immigrant population to show up, which will be hard because we actually have poll workers that check IDs out here.

[apillar]

They pull this crap with bonds and levies in West Virginia all the time. They will put them up during a general election and they get voted down by a large margin. Then they will quietly schedule a special election on some Saturday in mid-summer when half the county is at the beach. I've seen a bond be voted down several times and each time they will turn right around and schedule another vote. I would love to see some sort of limit put on these election, such as they must occur during a normal primary or general election and if voted down they can not be brought up for 2 years.

[PeteB570]

Our county did it three times with a sales tax increase. Had to promise the last time that if it passed they would not raise property taxes.

So then it passed and the county revalued all the propety.

Tax payers screamed for it to be revenue neutral but nope - so every body’s taxes went up plus now we have to pay the extra 1% sales tax.

[Smokin' Joe]

Something similar happened in Williston ND lately. In a special election a sunsetted 1% city sales tax was up for reinstatement to fund the Parks and Recreation Dept. The additional funding would have amounted to 4X the claimed funding needed, and the Park Board had rejected a compromise measure at 1/2%.

One of the 'selling points' was that the surplus would be used to provide property tax relief.

The tax was narrowly defeated in the special city election.

The next day residents received notices of reassessment based on the tight housing market, an alleged "market adjustment" to their property values, in all cases an increase, in some cases an increase of over 30%.

Now the tax will be back on the ballot in November, after the Park Board spends a gob of money on a consulting firm to promote the tax! (not sure what that will cost city residents, but their own tax money is being used to lobby to get them to cut their effective pay, at least that spent in city limits--by 1%).

Of course, it's summer, and the Park Board folks can 'sandbag' (not flood related) through the prime park season and blame it on lack of funding...(or maybe I'm just being cynical.)

Anyway, the proposed "tax relief" has been more than offset already by the increases in assessed value.

Keep in mind that sales tax revenues in the city are way up, there is an oil boom on, and a tremendous amount being collected through hospitality taxes on hotels and motels which are, with few exceptions, fully occupied (some leased in advance), not to mention the other 1% city sales tax. Property values here are up, not down, and that for the third time in 5 years, properties have been reassessed upwards 'because of market factors'--in short, this isn't because revenues have dropped off.

[Little Ray]

That is how Liberalism works.
No matter how many times you say “HELL NO!” they’re back next year (or in three months) with the same proposal - or worse.
They only have to win once, and it become the status quo - undoing the damage is almost impossible.

[Tublecane]

“He implies that it is a game of Russian roulette with the school board continuing to pull the trigger until they get off the shot they want.”

Um, I don’t think that’s the point of Russian roulette. Unless you want to kill yourself, in which case why bother with the game? or unless I’m wrong in imagining the gun is pointed at the school board’s head, in which case why would it be pulling the trigger?

This author needs to go back to metaphor school.