This blog has been getting a lot of hits for this ballot issue and viewers have been getting a post from a previous election!
For those wanting to vote yes, here’s the Yes on 1A website.
From the website:
All revenue from the 1993 tax, from now until its expiration in 2019, will go to pay off the bonds that have been sold to finance current acquisitions and projects. Without additional revenue, very few additional open space purchases will be possible.
That’s fine by me. The power and beaurocracy that has risen out of the quest for open space needs to take a step back and be humbled a tad. Open space is not a religion.
A Yes vote on County Question 1A will extend the existing tax through the year 2034. This is not an additional tax. It is an extension of the existing tax.
This seems like a play on words. If we waited until the tax expired and renewed it one day later, it would be a new tax. Not calling it a new tax is nothing more than a political “sleight of hand”. Was this tax originally sold to the voters as a tax that would need to be renewed?
Simply put, the county needs to prioritize their land needs. Everyone else has to prioritize, especially these days, doesn’t seem like too much to ask from our local government does it?
Will this bill pass? I have no doubt that it will over time. That said, it would be nice if an open space tax could be defeated at least once! I’m sure supporters can paint a picture of Open Space Armegeddon if this bill isn’t passed this year. Don’t believe it.
Climate targets can’t be achieved, say energy companies
Energy companies have privately warned the Government that its climate change targets are “illusory” and “delusional” as global leaders prepare to sign up to stricter guidelines at the Copenhagen climate change conference in six weeks.
Talk about raining on a parade.
Seems to me that being somewhat realistic makes for better planning and execution of alternative energy resources. Of course when you have Prime Minister Gorden Brown talking about 50 days to save the world from climate change, it’s hard to be pragmatic about things.
and who are the real friends. The World is upsidedown and backward thanks to the Obama administration.
Of course, in Obamaland, being tough on our opponents abroad is so very last administration. They’d prefer to be tough on our friends such as Poland, the Czech Republic, and Honduras. Celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union is so last century. Why waste a trip to Berlin when The One has a ticket to Oslo in December to receive his Peace Prize?
He answers that question in this New York Post commentary.
I particularly like it when he takes on the GOP establishment…
I’m a lifelong Republican running as the nominee of the New York State Conservative Party. I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the party left me. The GOP bosses in New York and Washington felt the candidate needed to be as liberal as possible. They picked a professional politician, with a voting record more liberal than 46 Democrats in the New York state legislature. They threw principles out the window. Their candidate has voted for increased spending, higher taxes, gay marriage and abortion. She supports “Card Check” (EFCA) and is supported by trial lawyers, gay activists and Big Labor. In 2008 she ran on the line of the radical left Working Families Party, ACORN’s political party in New York.
Doug Hoffman symbolizes the Tea Party movement in this way…
You see I’m not a professional politician; I’ve never sought elected office.
One can only hope the politicians that supported Dede Scozzfava be demoted to position of lessor power in the GOP. Why would they support such a liberal candidate? A one way ticket home might not be a bad idea.
Fact Check.
Perhaps critics are living in the past and not just a year or two.
John Guerra is a real jewell.
“The Republican Party is now a mentally ill group of people who want nothing more than to destroy Obama’s first term no matter how much the country needs his policies. I despise your party’s activities and the hatred you spew on Fox and other sounding boards for the insurance companies. Please don’t you dare get him killed, which is the underlying goal of you right wing nuts.”
