Editorial: Rejection of Lake Worth roads plan doesn’t mean defeat

Click title for link to the Palm Beach Post editorial about the defeated bond issue. We still have the same needs as a city, and the funding sources for these sorts of investments make up a pretty short list. I expect we will see this, or different varieties of a bond issue, on future ballots. I would hope, if so, those who voted "against bonds" would look past the rhetoric, know the facts and understand what impact it would have to them and the good that it would do the city as a whole. Here is an important part of the article:

Some, after learning the extent of the problems, were persuaded to support it. Many who still voted against it said they would have supported a slimmed-down plan that cost less.
City Manager Michael Bornstein says that offering a pared-down alternative could be politically tricky. The $63 million plan was balanced so that all sectors of the city received some improvements. A smaller plan might be more difficult to balance geographically, he said. That could make people in less-impacted neighborhoods less likely to support it, and “that’s where that keeps falling apart.”

And then you still have to deal with the unregulated speech that goes on at our neighbors' doors telling half-truths, wild scary predictions and those that have access to a keyboard doing the same. There are tales of an older woman, such as the one depicted below, going door to door telling everyone that she was on a fixed income and she would be paying $90 more a month if the bond passes. She would be on the street if that happened. Then she would tell everyone that it would be $3,000 for them to pay each year, for thirty years, if the bond passes. I imagine such a woman would look something like this, if she existed:

Don't you hate it when stores bring out their Halloween displays so early. It seems to get earlier with each passing year.