Yes! Weekly publishes its political endorsements.
The alt-weekly goes right along with the N&R on the municipal bonds, giving the thumbs-down only to the $20 million parks bond:
We’re a bit insulted that most of this bond money, $12 million, is earmarked for a swimming center, which was tacked onto the bond at the last minute.
It’s almost as if the authors of the bond had forgotten — or disregarded — the fact that this swim center was a standalone bond issue in 2006 and was defeated by 10,000 votes. Most curious.
Yet they go on to endorse the quarter-cent sales tax, reasoning “we endorsed the education bond back in May, so it is only right that we make allowances to pay for it.”
Never minding the fact that the brains at Yes! Weekly should have thought about a way to pay for the school bond before they endorsed it, they also conveniently forget that voters turned down the quarter-cent sales tax as recently as the May 6 primary.
Or maybe they’re just disregarding that fact. Curious indeed.
