Posts Tagged ‘sales tax’

Hate mail: A reason not to run for office

April 21st, 2012
I do get some of these.  I will just let you decide on what to think about this.  I only have 2 responses.  1) Google her name  2) Please vote YES on the sales tax extension.

I have been a citizen in the city of Rochester for 54 years.  During those years I was never politically active until three years ago when a man named “Barack Obama” took office.  I do not consider him our president for my own reasons, but I am sick and tired of the spending that he has done these past three years as well as the state and local spending which are no different.  I have been silent for the past 14 months but you can bet that from this day forward I will not be as silent.  First of all we do NOT need a civic center expansion.  We do NOT need more sales tax.  That sales tax was from the flood of ’78 which I lived through, and we already have flood control, and it is working just fine.  We don’t need to build expensive bridges, expand civic centers, expand volleyball courts, or any of the other worthless projects that you are proposing.  This is a matter of “want” and “need”.  The economy sucks basically, and you all know it.  You can’t spend money we don’t have anymore, and we the citizens of Rochester are not your ATM cards anymore.  I will fight this to the end, and I will vote NO for every ounce of spending that you propose that we do not need.

The needs are:  Safety, roads and schools.  Other than that screw it!  I am with Mike Rolih, and I am with the tea party and the republicans, and many of you are on the opposite side, but the ATM card is closed.  You can’t have more tax money for stupid stuff like this.

By the way Bruce Snyder and Ed Hruska, I have my dog back, and you will never ever touch him again.  Damn, Ed, next time you try to run a dog hearing read the ordinance first as you did not even know it at the time and I had to read it to you!  The dog is non aggressive now and was before, and the state law no longer allows people like you to make such decisions.  I won my case, and I was right all along.  My dog is well taken care of as are all the other three, and I have followed the ordinance all along.  My day care is closed at my request, and I refuse to take any more of your crap about the overspending.  I will be writing letters the editor and sitting at your meetings and speaking out until you are so sick of me you could puke.

This is what elections are for, and you can believe that I will make your next ones hell.

Diana Friemann

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Q & A: sales tax referendum

December 11th, 2011

Here are some questions answered by Gary Neumann: Read the rest of this entry »

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Local sales tax results

November 16th, 2011

Here is a list of Projects funded or partially funded with local option sales tax dollars since 1983.  Every time Rochester has voted on this we have approved the sales tax by better than a 2-1 margin.  I hope that this continues in 2012.  Big thanks to Gary Neumann for keep track of these projects. Read the rest of this entry »

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Background information on the Rochester Flood Control Project

June 15th, 2011

As part of the League of Minnesota Cities Annual Conference in Rochester we had arranged a bike ride to tour the Rochester Flood Control Project.  As it turned out we got lightning, so some of us will take an unofficial ride another time.  Assistant City Administrator Gary Neumann prepared some of the following information and I thought I would share. Read the rest of this entry »

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Fact Check: Sales Taxes didn’t jump, really?

March 3rd, 2011

Did the opening of Shoppes on Maine really have no impact on sales tax collections?

There was no effect.  Any increases in sales at Shoppes on Maine were offset elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sales Tax Pamphlet

February 4th, 2011

I strongly believe that we should let the voters weigh in and decide if they feel these projects are worth funding.  I am supportive of many of these projects that will not get done without the extension.

Rochester Sales Tax Information

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Staff Recommendations for Local Option Sales Tax Extension

December 17th, 2010

Here is a list of staff recommendations for the local option sales tax extension.  Staff arrived at this list after working with council members. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sales Tax Committee Final Report

December 4th, 2010

The Sales tax committee issued their final report.  I think they did a pretty good job but also came to some pretty head scratching solutions.  You can see their report here. Read the rest of this entry »

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Link: North Rochester Transportation

November 1st, 2010

From a blog we read.

Increased road subsidies not needed.

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