{"id":1528,"date":"2008-11-06T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2008-11-06T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T22:37:47","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-pass-an-op-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"How much does it cost to pass an op levy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth School Board spent perhaps $75,000 on consultants and advertising to &#8220;inform&#8221; the public about the levy. I haven&#8217;t checked to see how much Vote Yes spent but it was considerable. More than Osseo who&#8217;s pro vote yes folks only spent $3,000. Of course Osseo&#8217;s levy failed.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, unlike Osseo, no one organized a <em><strong>vote no <\/strong><\/em>group in Duluth. How the Duluth levy would have fared had there been serious opposition its hard to know. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Spending on the Oseeo campaign, which Epley estimated at $3,000, is less than last year&#8217;s because Vote Yes volunteers are eschewing calls and costly mass mailings for old-fashioned, and cheaper, door-knocking. <\/p>\n<p>But anti-levy activists are warning that pro-levy optimism might be unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say that, based on what I&#8217;m hearing from constituents, they feel conditions are even worse than they were last year,&#8221; said Ron Stoffel, treasurer of 281 CARE, a group working to defeat the proposed Robbinsdale tax increase. &#8220;We have a large amount of fixed-income seniors. They&#8217;re saying they can&#8217;t afford any more tax increases.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duluth School Board spent perhaps $75,000 on consultants and advertising to &#8220;inform&#8221; the public about the levy. I haven&#8217;t checked to see how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}