{"id":3957,"date":"2008-11-04T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/otero-county-defeats-spaceport-tax\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T04:49:00","slug":"otero-county-defeats-spaceport-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/otero-county-defeats-spaceport-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Otero County defeats spaceport tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREmChM6zAI\/AAAAAAAAJR0\/xUjopI0f6X8\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 95px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREmChM6zAI\/AAAAAAAAJR0\/xUjopI0f6X8\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265031264086969346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>One little-noticed but important vote tonight was the defeating by <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Otero<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> residents of a tax increase to help fund <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With all votes counted, the proposed 1\/8 percent tax increase was defeated with 8,179 votes, or 47.7 percent, for the tax, and 8,954 votes, or 52.3 percent, against it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What does it mean? It\u2019s not immediately clear. The tax wasn\u2019t critical to the spaceport project. The state has already secured most of the funding for the project from the Legislature and the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> tax that was approved last year. In addition, voters in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Sierra<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> approved a tax increase earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But the tax was to have raised some $6.6 million of the estimated $200 million cost of the spaceport and, more importantly, state officials hoped Otero would become the third in a tri-county effort to build and support the spaceport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that the tax would have raised $2.3 million for the spaceport.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One little-noticed but important vote tonight was the defeating by Otero County residents of a tax increase to help fund Spaceport America. With all votes counted, the proposed 1\/8 percent tax increase was defeated with 8,179 votes, or 47.7 percent, for the tax, and 8,954 votes, or 52.3 percent, against it. What does it mean? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}