Given that the issue faced no organized opposition and that the low off off off-election turnout should have tipped the issue to a good GOTV drive, this is an impressive asskicking:
From the BOE
Issue 17 - City of Akron, Income Tax
Vote For Not More Than 1
(WITH 153 OF 153 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
AGAINST THE INCOME TAX . . . . . . . . .11,489 . . . . 66.02
FOR THE INCOME TAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,913 . . . . 33.98
Bottom line: the mayor just didn't make the case. When friends to the left as well as the right vowed to vote against it, clearly the campaign was in trouble. For myself, I am just so bone tired of cities and states being held hostage by companies for handouts in the name of jobs, I just couldn't see fit on this one.
I think the case is strong for a tax about half the magnitude to replace lost state and Federal monies. I hope that's where the city goes.
RIP, JOHN OLESKY
1 year ago
1 comments:
no what would make sense would be for the levy to actually go towards paying for more cops and fireman, not having the largest chunk for some poorly defined concept. The 3 people I know that voted no did so for this reason.
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