{"id":34735,"date":"2026-01-09T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34735"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:38:24","slug":"you-will-vote-until-you-vote-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/09\/you-will-vote-until-you-vote-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"You Will Vote Until You Vote Correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2026\/01\/07\/springfield-city-leaders-aim-get-lodging-tax-increase-back-front-voters-this-spring\/\" target=\"_new\">Springfield city leaders aim get lodging tax increase back in front of voters this Spring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The future of a new Springfield convention center is still being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, voters shot down a 3-percent hotel-motel tax increase. Now, the city is hoping to provide the information needed to present the issue again to voters on the April ballot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because it was not a <em>yes<\/em>, clearly the voters meant <em>maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to go into my litany of reasons to oppose pretty much any tax money to fund convention center money sinkholes, but I have seen this over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Note that one of the &#8220;city leaders&#8221; quoted is the &#8220;city manager&#8221; which is a hired position, and not an elected position.  So not only is he unaccountable to the voters directly, but Springfield might only be a stepping stone in his career.  And bringing home a convention center despite opposition&#8211;boy, what a great bullet point on the ol&#8217; resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield city leaders aim get lodging tax increase back in front of voters this Spring: The future of a new Springfield convention center is still being considered. Last November, voters shot down a 3-percent hotel-motel tax increase. Now, the city is hoping to provide the information needed to present the issue again to voters on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34736,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735\/revisions\/34736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}