{"id":6683,"date":"2009-09-23T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2009-09-23T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:01:26","slug":"county-voters-ok-continuation-of-public-safety-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/county-voters-ok-continuation-of-public-safety-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"County voters OK continuation of public safety tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5394\" title=\"DonaAnaCounty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DonaAnaCounty.jpg\" alt=\"DonaAnaCounty\" width=\"110\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DonaAnaCounty.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DonaAnaCounty-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 110px) 100vw, 110px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voters in unincorporated areas of Do\u00f1a Ana County have approved the continuation of a 1\/4 percent sales tax that supports the county\u2019s volunteer fire departments and ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_13398113\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn all, 482 voters (86 percent) favored the measure, while 84 opposed it (15 percent), according to unofficial results from the county clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurnout was only 1.35 percent; 566 residents cast ballots out of the 41,802 who were eligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo votes were cast at three polling locations &#8212; Camino Real Middle School, University Hills Elementary School and the Las Cruces Country Club.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No votes? Wow\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, residents of the City of Las Cruces, the Village of Hatch, the Town of Mesilla and the City of Sunland Park were not eligible to vote in this election, and those three polling locations were in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in unincorporated areas of Do\u00f1a Ana County have approved the continuation of a 1\/4 percent sales tax that supports the county\u2019s volunteer fire departments and ambulance service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-dona-ana-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","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=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}