What’s At Stake — Salt Lake County
A review of the big things at stake in Salt Lake County
The transit initiative (number three) will help determine the fate of Salt Lake County for a generation to come. It will raise about a billion dollars with a quarter cent sales tax to pay for badly needed transit lines. Diane Turner and David Wilde will determine a lot about our future also.
- First, electing Diane Turner will reward our wonderful Mayor Peter Corroon with a 5-4 Democratic majority on the council and help him cut the budget to keep our taxes low while services stay efficient.
- Second, Diane is a solid vote against any money for sports stadiums that isn’t approved by the voters in a referendum while Wilde is wobbly on the issue.
- Third, Wilde voted for the transit initiative but the rumors around the council chamber were that he refused to support it unless supporters could bring along one other Republican councilman first. We need a council that will take a stand for our future without cowering behind the skirts of either political party. I know Diane and I promise that she will do what she believes in and not what any party tells her.
- Fourth, read the Trib endorsement of Diane Turner.
Let’s take note that the leader of the legislature that put our transit money in jeopardy this fall is running to be reelected to the Utah State House in Salt Lake County. The corrupt Greg Curtis (R-Sandy), who has been caught double-dipping into state and county reimbursement funds, left the country in October and let his campaign warchest speak for him. Jay Seegmiller is working the ground to replace him in the 49th district in Sandy. If you want our transit money spent in Salt Lake County by Salt Lake County government instead of being taken by a greedy and vindictive legislature, vote for Jay Seegmiller in Sandy.
November 6th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
In your comment on my site, you didn’t touch on the issue that the transit lines were badly needed. My post implied that they are not.
Here you do claim that transit lines are badly needed. How so?
November 6th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Traffic on I-15 will be completely jammed during rush hour within a few years at current rates of development and growth. Rail transit offers almost unlimited capacity to riders who can avoid the crowded highways. Thus, rail transit is needed to substitute for highways which simply cannot realistically grow much beyond twelve lanes.
And a new interstate through the developed parts of Salt Lake Valley is next to impossible.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
What is this I see? A bait and switch on the people of Salt Lake County? A sales tax increase for Traxx you say? But what is that superhighway I see by the way? Yes, I see it now out there on the Western Horizon. All these dupes in Salt Lake are in for a surprise when,
Instead of a rail line to serve their future needs
They pay more for food and the toll booth fees,
geez, guys what happened to initiative 3
I thought we’d have trains for as long as I could see. But UDOT, Curtis and Valentine scarfed it up just like swine.
Too late night to take back and rewind
All that money is in UDOT’s bottom line
and it’s a way for the ages to remember us by
Why, a Legacy Indeed but of what I can’t bear
Environmental destruction, congested, polluted air
No it’s for Rails Utah. Yes it is oh, I swear.
Do prepare for this fake, don’t make a mistake
The only rail your gettin goes to DayBreak!
Nate Smith
11/06/06
November 6th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Nate Smith,
That is an important fear. And it’s why it is so important to support Diane Turner for county council and progressive Democrats for the legislature this year.
At least Valentine is likely to only make us use our tax money to build his commuter rail line; Curtis and the Salt Lake Republican leaders will try to force our money into developers’ pockets with new highways that don’t even serve today’s taxpayers.