Local: Museum backers trot out deceptive push poll
Posted in Local with tags blagojevich, Museum, polls on December 19, 2008 by Billy DennisBob Manning was right when he said last week that the museum project backers were going to go on an all-out public relations marketing blitz to convince voters to approve a referendum raising sales taxes to support the project.
Blog Peoria commenter Mahkno left the following comment in a previous post:
Museum folks ran a very push orientated poll this eve. Had a good 30 second to full minute intro about how great the education benefits would be, how much revenue it would bring in (14 million), how many jobs it would create (150 union jobs), its 86% paid for so far, and how low a burden it would be (25 cents per…).
Would you support a sales tax increase? Mmm no.
What if it were tied to other public service like firefighting and police? Mmmm… no.
What if the tax were only temporary, to expire at some point? LOL… Civic Center? … MMmmm No…
Done.
Trouble is, the only people who want public money to pay for this damn thing are the people who are in the professional economic development racket, and politicians like Dave Koehler, Aaron Schock and Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
And what’s this about it being 86 percent paid for? I call bulls***. If this thing was 86 percent paid for, they wouldn’t be having to swipe pennies from little old ladies and single mothers at the checkout line at the dollar store.
UPDATE: Oh, yeah. I just noticed. C.J. is shamelessly swiping my site’s content. Well, imitation is a form of flattery.
