The hysterical forces who are determined to keep the gas tax barrel filled to the brim with pork are handing out scaremongering flyers to frighten us regular folks out of signing the No New Gas Tax petition. Here are three anti-No New Gas Tax flyers. Two are real. One is a parody. See if you can tell which is the parody and which are self-parody:
1) "Don’t let I-912 sink the ferries! Don’t sign their petitions!"
3) "You will die. Your children will die. Oh, and did we mention you’ll lose your job, too?"
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 29, 2005 03:02 PM | Email ThisIsn't the 23 cents a gallon going to "making the highways safer"? If not, why not?
Posted by: SouthernRoots on June 29, 2005 03:21 PMIt was really a pleasure collecting those signatures.
Even after a total spyware cleansing- I'm still getting redirected over to a porn site.
Posted by: Andy on June 29, 2005 03:40 PMNow we have the same sky is falling line of male bovine scat coming from the same usual suspect and useful idiots as every other time a tax control, tax relief measure comes up.
This this years budget in WA had a increase in revenue, yet the spending increases outstriped the increase.
We absolutely have to reign in this peddlers of political pronography.
I think I will email a copy of the Stamp Act
http://ahp.gatech.edu/stamp_act_bp_1765.html
to my legislators and remind them the Revolution was over pennies.
Oh, and they forgot to mention that YOUR DOG WILL DIE if you sign I-912.....
Posted by: Michele on June 29, 2005 03:50 PMThese anti-912 campaigns are hilarious. You'd think that everything will fall apart without this gas tax. If this tax was so critical to meeting state objectives, then maybe after it is shot down by the voters Christine may have a mandate to institute an emergency 10% reduction in state employees to cover the costs!
Posted by: Elvis is the King County on June 29, 2005 03:58 PM
(It would make it less obvious if you used one of those Javascript thingies to conceal the URLs.)
Posted by: ScottM on June 29, 2005 04:00 PMEither that, or the libs are so insidious as to make us west sounders pay entirely for the ferries and then justify even HIGHER fares to subsidize King County projects or else they will "sink" the ferries.
Posted by: Eyago on June 29, 2005 04:58 PM Listen I just talked to the powers that
be and the no new tax initiative numbers
look real good.All I can say is keep it
going. We can make this happen.
Note that the "logo" is actually the Printers Union label. Don't ever run for local office and dare to get your campaign signs printed without that label on it - take my word for it, I learned the hard way!
Posted by: Patrick on June 29, 2005 05:10 PMMy computer's clean and I'm not getting redirected. Try both Adware and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Posted by: VaCSProf on June 29, 2005 05:32 PM1. We'll have to fire all the teachers!
2. We'll have to close all the battered womens' shelters!
3. There will be no money for Fire/Police emergency response!
4. It will kill all the salmon!
5. It will shut down all of our hospitals!
Posted by: Shaun on June 29, 2005 08:09 PMAll three are equally shameless.
Posted by: cc on June 29, 2005 08:10 PMAlthough, they didn't say we would die, so, in retrospect, it wasn't that bad.
In addition to revoking Quadrant's 3 year-old traffic concurrency certificate, Smith has recommended denial of largest King County project to ever get such a ruling.
What everyone needs to understand is that these arbitrary and capricious actions (fraud if connected to intent) were used by KCDOT to help this project, and are from the DOT manual for helping developers avoid the billions and billions that have left state and local road projects without funding. Similar acts discovered after approval of Redmond Ridge and Trilogy 8 years ago have resulted in liability to the taxpayers in the hundreds of millions of dollars category. Gregoire stepping in to begin the bailout of the building industry with the gas tax was just her first attempt to buy support from the non-partisan builders that will back whoever throws the most taxpayer money their way in subsidies.
At a time when Gas Tax opponents are making arguments why taxpayers should object to throwing more money down DOT ratholes without honest analysis, accountability, or even public support, how would the masses feel if they learned that King County DOT had worked for years to shift road costs from massive developers like Quadrant, to the unsuspecting taxpayers?
I know that I will never support any revenue plan until government stops giving my money to the growth industry elite (who's opposing I-912?) to subsidize their profits.
Look to the Times for additional coverage on this breaking story soon.
Posted by: Mike on June 29, 2005 08:58 PMIf they threaten to cut the Tent Cities, I will snap & rise up in anger like a French Revolutionary. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Greg-war-ie!
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on June 29, 2005 11:30 PMSorry about the marshmallow. But I forgot to mention the worst of all...
6. No more clowns at childrens' birthday parties!
Posted by: Shaun on June 30, 2005 07:59 AMThat moment is one of silent appreciation for all I have. In a moment, a monster or terrorist can take it away. We can blog & bitch, but we have to come back to the essential things--families, communities and good bloggers who give a darn about their governments running well and SERVING the people who trusted them with the powers to do so. Let's keep the heat on to acheive that!
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on June 30, 2005 02:08 PM
spyware would be hijacking me on lots of pages-
Posted by: Andy on July 1, 2005 09:21 AM