Houston Voters Approve
Yep, with nearly half the votes counted, every one of the propositions is on the way to an easy victory. Only one of them is below 60% approval. G, which will blow the Revenue cap off, has 64%, and H, which will add “$90 million for police” has over 70%.
Clearly the groups that proposed the revenue cap originally are going to have to reorganize and establish themselves as permanent political forces, if they wish to protect what they gained.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
[...] I have a lot going on in my personal life right now (I think I’ve said that before, haven’t I?) and unfortunately, my normal mode of dealing with stress is to either get very irritible, or bury myself in leisure activities. Doing anything that resembles work becomes harder and harder, whereas computer games and anime mean I don’t have to think; worry, or just plain be neurotic. There’s times when I wish I could just be stupid, like all the folks that voted to remove the revenue cap from the City of Houston, because the mayor said he needed more money to offer increased services [...]