Monday, August 27, 2007

Jail Tax Blues

Rumors continue to run strong that Todd Portune and David Pepper will stab our courageous Sheriff Si Leis in the back by throwing in the towel on their plan to raise the Sales Tax. I don't think Si Leis will be happy about that, I wonder if he'd start yelling at them like he yells at DeWine?

This is the wrong approach. Portune and Pepper need to go all out for their plan. They should fight till the end. We need to raise taxes. We need this money for a new jail, $160 million in new social programs, and $600 million to redirect to the county general fund to be spent on other programs.

We especially need this money because the 3rd Sheriff's deputy in the last month was recently arrested. If we don't get a new jail soon, Sheriff Leis won't have anywhere to put his deputies when they get arrested again.

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