With a ballot as crowded as the one facing Arizona voters, there was bound to be some good to be found in it.
Payday lenders defeated
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So congratulations to the payday lending industry, the $14.6 million you spent trying to permanently wedge your thieving industry on the Arizona landscape ended in defeat.
Now it’s important to keep an eye on the gutless wonders in the state Legislature to make sure they don’t do anything to subvert the vote of the electorate. The law allowing payday lenders in Arizona expires July 1, 2010, and it’s not coming any too soon.
No real estate sales tax
Money grubbing government entities can look elsewhere besides a real estate transfer tax to raise money now that Proposition 100 passed — and by a 3-1 majority at that. As if property taxes aren’t already enough.
Did you notice the vote City of Tucson?
Simple majority works
By a 2-1 majority voters saw through the contorted thinking behind Proposition 105. The downright scary initiative sought to require that any ballot measure calling for a tax increase be approved by a majority of registered voters, not just a majority of those voting on the issue. In essence, people who choose not to vote would have been counted as “no” votes but enough people really did vote no to defeat the idea this time and that’s all that needs to be said.
School spending OK’d
Despite the recessionary economy, voters in school districts serving Catalina Foothills, Flowing Wells and Altar Valley all approved spending measures that will put much needed money toward their schools.
No doubt much of those districts’ success is owed to the fact they’ve earned the trust and respect of their electorate. It’s too bad officials in Tucson Unified School District don’t get that.
Giffords, Grijalva re-elected
Congratulations to Democrats Gabrielle Giffords and Raúl Grijalva on your re-elections to the U.S. House of Representatives. As our representatives and members of the party in power we trust you’ll do right by us.
... now to be truly positive
With the election behind us and now, hopefully, with some new-found confidence it’s worth seizing the opportunity to set a positive tone as this nation tackles the issues it faces. The past eight years are behind us. What’s done is done and there’s no sense in dwelling in the past.
When he takes office Jan. 20 there will be much on President Barack Obama’s plate and petty sniping isn’t going to help get anything accomplished.
To quote John McCain from his concession speech “I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.”
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