Little Rock 2006 has gotten exclusive video coverage last night as the final results were announced in the Jail Tax Vote :
FOR — 12,088 42.8 percent
AGAINST — 16,112 57.2 percent
The supporters of the Tax Vote had a slick website, clear messaging, professional signs, and Buddy Villines. They had people on the major street corners doing signage as the votes were nearing an end of tabulating.
JIM LYNCH preached and railed against the tax like a modern day Huey P. Long at Democratic Committee Meetings and whereever two or three were gathered.
JOYCE ELLIOTT while always busy, was phonebanking, and using her impressive connections with labor & the African-American community to flood the polls with voters against the tax.
PAT LYNCH broke with his liberal cohorts at the Arkansas Times and on both his blog (http://lynchlarge.blogspot.com) and on his radio talk show (http://www.wai-radio.com) spoke out about the failings of this vote.
All the Mayor candidates for Little Rock and their sidekicks got in on the act. Praise and support should also go to Little Rock Mayoral candidate Bill Walker who was the only candidate for Mayor to decisively come AGAINST the jail tax. Walker switch the ever elusive local activist and erstwhile political gadfly Drew Pritt to oppose the tax. The two of them campaigned against the tax together. Vice Mayor Barbara Graves teamed up with Joan Adcock in urging voters to vote FOR the tax vote even last night as the votes were trickling in. Mark Stodola has Jim Lynch in his corner but supported the tax. The Pander Bear (Jesse Mason) was somewhere on the issue. When Little Rock 2006 finds out we’ll let our readers know.
