Here’s the perfect warm-up for tonight’s GOP presidential debate: The two Republicans on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Ray Carroll and Ally Miller, will be debating the pros and cons of the county’s $815 million bond proposal.
Carroll and Miller appeared to get along OK during her 2012 campaign; Carroll even hosted a fundraiser for Miller. But since Miller took office, she and Carroll have been tangling as much with each other as they have with the three Democrats on the Board of Supes. We’ll see if moderator Mike Shaw can keep them on topic.
Should be great radio. Tune in at 1 p.m. on KVOI, 1030 AM, or listen online here.
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2015.
There’s no debate, vote NO.
Hell NO!
They won’t spend it on what they say they will, so no!
No, my street has been bonded for repaving 6 times in 25 years and still isn’t done. Fk no!
Vote YES – at least the street ones.
Look at our streets – you’d have to be crazy to vote no. The comments above are all anti-government types who would vote no on any kind of spending. Point me to a time where bond funds were legitimately mis-spent or re-allocated to something different. It just doesn’t happen despite paranoid allegations to the contrary.
No street has been bonded for repaving as alleged above (let alone 6 times in 25 years). It’s rare to do a bond for repaving – they’re usually for new construction.
After reading two guest opinions and an editorial [in the Sunday Star], after hearing a County Supervisor and a Bond Advisory Committee member address the bond package [on Saturday], I’m confirmed in my intention to vote ‘yea’ on all seven measures. And it is ‘yea!’ not just ‘yes’, because the proposed projects will benefit the people of the county and each of its jurisdictions. Are there in the total package individual items which I might choose not to fund? Of course, but I am not everyman, and your priorities and mine will never coincide entirely. For me, the tax increase is equivalent to the purchase of a single book, and the library system may have that book because we pass Proposition 426. For Supervisor Miller and for Taxpayers Against Pima Bonds I ask: have you ever seen a bond package you like? What public investments, if any, would you support through bonding? Or does the county need no public improvements?