…to the looming giant budgetary crisis behind the curtain.
Excellent piece yesterday from Roger Bundy at Cleveland Equnimous Philosopher about the Medical Mart, er… CONvention Center, er… General Fund Sales Tax Increase.
Here’s one of the worthy money quotes:
As is clear from the following excerpts of the Midyear Financial Report, the county is already hinting that it will need the […]
Vote no on extending the Cuyahoga County Port Authority’s funding…
According to the CuyCo Board of Elections, the following issue ballot language will be associated with the port’s tax renewal levy:
CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY (1436 Precincts)
PROPOSED TAX LEVY (RENEWAL)
A renewal of an existing levy to constitute a tax for the benefit of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County
Port Authority […]
With apologies to my dad who thinks I’m too bright to use such throw away language…
From Cleveland’s blogopimp George Nemeth over at Brewed Fresh Daily:
Look no further then the PutItOnTheBallot initiative. When a grassroots campaign to make government more accountable to the electorate fails because it doesn’t have a warchest to hire canvassers and blow […]
Hey, somebody’s got to do it - why not you? This from Tim Ferris last night:
Well, our http://PutItOnTheBallot.com website is un-biffed and functional today, so we have it as backup to let people know where we’re going to be until we hand in the petitions to Frank Russo at the auditor’s office before he closes […]
… Oh Lord.
So said Phil Collins back in the day when Sussudio was something that we thought made sense. But just like Sussudio was just gibberish leading nowhere, so is the current state of the local CuyCo GOP leadership and today Ralph King has hit it on the head. Here’s an excerpt from today’s worthy post talking […]
This pic of a poster hanging in a downtown establishment came in an email from Mike Pelsozy today about the effort that Fred the Fixer and the gang at the Cleveland Intelligensia are putting up in hope of denying you a chance to vote on the Medical Mart err… CONvention Center err…GENERAL FUND SALES TAX […]
Unwilling to give an inch in their battle to protect your right to vote on issues that matter to you (and your wallet) Gloria and Tim Ferris sent this along from the PutItOnTheBallot TOC:
TAX REFERENDUM GROUP ANNOUNCES DRIVE-THRU PETITION SIGNING LAST CHANCE TO SIGN PETITIONS
Your last chance to put the sales tax issue on the ballot by […]
I got an email last night from a friend and frequent reader who’s done his fair share of grassroots political work in his time asking my honest opinion on the status of the efforts of the PutItOnTheBallot folks. We’ve known each other long enough that when he asks me an honest question, I give him […]
Just another reason to PutItOnTheBallot…
This morning between appointments I caught the last few minutes of the Bob Frantz show on WTAM and heard the most interesting thing - producer Dave Ramos and host Frantz bashing the petitioners for claiming that the petitioners did not know what they were doing in terms of filing deadlines for […]
Tim Ferris sends a report from the field in the battle to force a vote on the Medical Mart err…CONvention Center err…GENERAL FUND SALES TAX INCREASE:
Here is the link:
http://timferris.blogspot.com/2007/08/incredible-remarkable-reports-from.html
And here is the full text. Enjoy.
Here’s a tidbit I got in yesterday from one of our PutItOnTheBallot.com workers in the field. My initial reaction was that I […]
