All the winning County Commissioners got under 10,000 votes (except Jordan who got almost 13,000). Joe Martinez, for example, has 98,395 voters in his district. He got 8,909 votes: less than 10%. It is hardly a victory if you are elected by less than 10% of the voters and you have to collect $358,545.83 to do it ($40 a vote).Why do we call the August election a primary? The definition of a primary (Free Dictionary by Farlex): A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen.
We didn’t do that. We actually elected people and added 1/2 a penny to our ad valorem tax!
Here is the solution. If there are more than 2 candidates the one with the most votes wins, then we can move the ELECTION to November where it should be.
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Let's make it a real primary in August. If there are more than 3 candidates in a non-partisan race, the top 2 go to the Nov election.
The problem with that is -- reader above -- I think we had one or two judges and a couple of community council races with more than 2 candidates. Would you got out for that election? We would have 3% voter turnout....if that. This is broken and it must be fixed.
the Christian Family Coalition endorsed:
Natacha Seijas and Joe Martinez for County Commission.
So, what you are saying, GoD, is that more of us thought better of a tax on our property than Alvarez?
The August election not only helps guarantee low voter turnout which usually benefits incumbants but it is also held two weeks before the commision takes up next years budget. On September 4 the Commision has its first budget hearing but since they are all secure for longer than the attention span of the general population they don't have to vote in the interest of the people. Instead they can make decisions that better benefit their contributors. A November election would force some of them to have the interest of their constituents in mind.
I posted this comment in another article but it relates better to this one.
Enrique:
You are a smarty!
you mentioned sales tax regarding the children's trust. are you sure you aren't mixing up ballot issues? the children's trust is funded by taxes assessed by property. how did raising the sales tax come into play?
Regarding the Christian Family Coalition endorsements: it's an easy endorsement to get, one only needs to pull out the credit card or check.
You are all correct will fix post (thank you readers)
Shall The Children’s Trust, the independent special
district for children’s services, be renewed to fund
improvements to children’s health, development and
safety including:
• programs to reduce violence and keep children safe,
• after-school and summer programs,
• programs to improve the educational quality of
child care, and
• health care teams for public schools; and promote
parental and community responsibility for children;
and continue the annual ad valorem tax levy not to
exceed one-half (½) mill?
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