Special election report

The special election for the new buildings at the college LCCC 25 million dollars was voted into existence. This was about half of the projected cost for the project. Next year they will have to go to the state legislature to ask for the other half [another 25 million dollars] both of which raises taxes.

According to after election reports only 24% of the registered voters turned out for this single topic election. Of that amount 40% voted against the project. 60% voted for the raised taxes. What that comes out to is that only about 14% of he registered voters have raised everyone’s taxes.

As an aside there are a lot of property owners here who are not registered to vote locally. We have a military base in town. Many of the active duty people are local and yet maintain their vote ‘back home’ which makes no real sense to me as when you do that, you can not effect your current property taxes.

In essence be involved and engaged where ever you live or don’t urinate and bemoan the current events.

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