Thursday, January 26, 2006
Who Wants to Raise Your Taxes in District 300?
This past week Northwest Herald reporter Allison Smith had an excellent story concerning who has promised to contribute to the political action committee trying to raise taxes in District 300.
Area home builders, the District 300 architect and real estate agents, the article says, will raise $153,000, presumably the amount that St. Louis tax hike consultant Unicom.ARC has said is needed to have a chance of passing the tax hike referendums.
The pubic usually never learns who has so much to gain from the passage of a school referendum until right before the election or even afterward when it is too late to see the selfish motives involved.
Not this time, though, thanks to Allison Smith. Somehow she got to attend the solicitation meeting of Advance 300-the newly re-named tax hike political action committee. Formerly known as Schools Now for District 300 Committee, it had $33,687 in the bank at the end of last June. Expect the report for the last half of 2005 to be filed before the Jan. 31st deadline.
Area home builders, the District 300 architect and real estate agents, the article says, will raise $153,000, presumably the amount that St. Louis tax hike consultant Unicom.ARC has said is needed to have a chance of passing the tax hike referendums.
The pubic usually never learns who has so much to gain from the passage of a school referendum until right before the election or even afterward when it is too late to see the selfish motives involved.
Not this time, though, thanks to Allison Smith. Somehow she got to attend the solicitation meeting of Advance 300-the newly re-named tax hike political action committee. Formerly known as Schools Now for District 300 Committee, it had $33,687 in the bank at the end of last June. Expect the report for the last half of 2005 to be filed before the Jan. 31st deadline.
Labels: Advance 300, Campaign Contributions, District 300, Ken Arndt, Nancy Zettler, School Vendors, Unicom
