Since most of my readers don’t live in Flagstaff, here’s where you can find out more:
The hippies in favor of the proposition can’t seem to agree, so there are two pro-proposition websites:
Of the two, YesOnProp100 is the more honest one as YesForFlagstaff has a number of factual errors on their website. Something that bothered me about the YesOnProp100 site though is that they site this study. Well, unlike the hippies, I actually downloaded and read the study, and according to it, ALL businesses are bad which is just stupid. It’s not even clear that it applies to Flagstaff anyways, given that Barnstable, Massachusetts and Flagstaff are probably very different towns. The study was written from a very narrow viewpoint, that of property taxes anyways, and sales tax is a big factor in Flagstaff.
The anti-proposition folks only have the one website, which is basically sponsored by Wal-Mart:
Taken together, I’d have to rate the WalMart site as being the most honest. The pro-proposition sites shade the truth in various ways about what the proposition is supposed to do, while the anti-site provides a link to the proposition at the top of their home page. I kind of worry about political sites that argue for a proposition they don’t want people to read…
The Arizona Daily Sun, a paper I can’t stand, ended up coming out against the proposition, and given their general liberal bent, that’s kind of surprising. You can read their editorial here. So the fact that even they condemned the proposition says something important to me.
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