Just say no

Just say NoToTime. The TIME "transportation" initiative.

From Here and Now, May 14, 2008:

No sooner does the governor receive an award for championing education and early child development than a report surfaces that the governor's office helped broker a deal to keep opposition to a new transportation tax to a minimum. A document leaked to the East Valley Tribune shows a behind the scene's quid pro quo: a homebuilders association agreeing not to contest a transportation tax if a development impact fee is removed from the proposed transportation plan. The deal also calls for homebuilders not to oppose a state trust land measure that will be on the November ballot.

Here's a pretty cute satirical view from the Arizona Report "The Governor’s secret backroom has been booked solid since the news broke that the homebuilders were able donate to thousands of dollars in financial support in exchange for preventing millions of dollars in impact fees"

Unfortunately, it is all too true, here is the leaked document:




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I love Talton's title: On transportation, stuff you can't make up .