[Vision2020] school levy

[J Ford]

Hey, how about Idaho passing a law requiring 50% of votes to pass a levy rather than the present 66% or what-ever it is?  Washington had an attempt to pass this type of thing...didn't work there, but in other states it has and it has worked.  Any chance Idaho has/would consider this?

J  :]


From: ringoshirl at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:05:02 -0700
Subject: [Vision2020] school levy










I am sure you recall the legislative special 
session last year.  The majority of legislators voted to remove the 
permissive property tax that has traditionally gone to support schools.  
(This is .3% of property value that supported schools without requiring a vote 
of patrons.)
To compensate for these funds, the sales tax was 
raised form 5% to 6%.  That money flows from the state to the school 
districts.  It was a trade-off, not an increase.
 
Thus, the ads attributed to moscowlevy.com are 
misleading.  It is late in the day to discuss all issues raised, but I 
think such last-minute ads with misleading information are 
inexcusable.
 
Who is moscowlevy.com?  Did the radio station 
break any rules by failing to identify the individual who paid for the 
ads?  It turns out that these are "issue ads", rather than political 
ads.  They are therefore subject to different rules for publicly 
identifying the sponsor of the ads.  I submit that not only would honesty 
compel a person to identify himself/herself, it would also be ridiculous to put 
much stock into information coming from something like "moscowlevy.com" without 
checking into the source.
 
If anybody would like to check this out, you can 
get information in black and white verifying that indeed Dale Courtney paid for 
the ads coming from KRPL and associated stations.
 
Shirley Ringo
 
 
 

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