St George organizers fail to get enough signatures for Nov vote

not surprised, but I think they may end up having enough to make the December ballot.

good I don't want this.

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I fully expect them to get their signatures. Just depends on which Election Day ballot they get on that matters. If you need a big turnout, then you're screwed as the deadline has passed for a while. If you want a small turnout, you're in business becuase several of those pop up all the time. Lots of people don't like going to the polls if there isn't a big race. Not sure who that would help.

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I've been thinking about that too, and I don't know if a big turnout would be in their favor or a smaller one.

You know how the school board and BREC always want special elections for tax renewals. Maybe we need to employ the same strategy????

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How is it dead? They reported last week that they had 17k of their 18k signatures needed.

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It certainly isn't dead.

The drumbeat of negative publicity has hurt, but it's not dead.

I expect the anti SG crowd will make a big deal out of the upcoming annexations that make no sense. They aren't close to the casino and all they will do is eventually cost the city money.

But all we will hear is more annexations as if these have the same effect as losing the Mall did.

At the end of the day the rate of acquisition doesn't matter, crossing the finish line is what matters.

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You don't think it is significant the signatures have slowed to 200/week from 500/week in the last 6 weeks? Maybe going to slow more in the coming weeks?

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Sure I think "the rate of return is significant" to a point. I would expect that initially signatures would be easier to get and the numbers would dwindle if the effort to obtain signatures remained the same.

I also would expect the efforts from the city would also have their effects, especially the annexation of the Mall.

But the main thing is they reach their goal in a reasonable amount of time. Now what is a "reasonable amount of time"? That is up for debate, but if the voting population become tired of the political crap and get turned off then its a unreasonable amount of time.

That's what the city wants(people to get POed by the BS) and that's what SG can't let happen.

SG needs to get the word out that its about education, and that this Together is Better is a cute slogan, but it has been shown that we aren't together and the system we have now is not very good.

Probably

But at least you care about your local issues.


I don't have the numbers on St. George. I do know that Baton Rouge people need to just give them their school district though.

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Texas has proven that ISDs can work very well.

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This