{"id":2449962,"date":"2019-10-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/election-picks\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T07:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:52:26","slug":"election-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/election-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Election picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In Basalt, I\u2019d urge you to vote \u201cyes\u201d on 3A, which maintains property tax at existing rates. It\u2019s not a tax increase, despite misleading language on the ballot. It has nothing to do with your TABOR refund, which you will receive separately. The consequences of voting \u201cno\u201d would be to cut property tax revenue in half, forcing Basalt to cut services. Note that Basalt just gave back about $2 million to taxpayers, so combined, this would end up being a huge hit for a small town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Simultaneously, there\u2019s a very cool citizen-led movement called Basalt Gives. It creates an endowment for Basalt out of TABOR property tax refunds that a community board would allocate to key needs, including child care, health care, and mental health. I love this idea, and over time, it could grow through contributions from other entities. Imagine if we had a $5 million fund one day! Please consider donating your tax refund to this effort. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/basaltgives\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/basaltgives<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basaltgives\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basaltgives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Statewide, please vote \u201cyes\u201d on Proposition CC. This bipartisan measure undoes dysfunctional state law that prevents us from spending growing tax revenue on roads, transportation and schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Locally, I\u2019m supporting Shane Larson for school board in RE-1. He\u2019s been endorsed by our teachers\u2019 association and will continue to implement the strategic plan. Last, I\u2019d vote \u201cyes\u201d on Eagle County 1A, which is a tobacco tax that will fund public health and education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Auden Schendler<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/election-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Basalt, I\u2019d urge you to vote \u201cyes\u201d on 3A, which maintains property tax at existing rates. It\u2019s not a tax increase, despite misleading language on the ballot. It has nothing to do with your TABOR refund, which you will receive separately. The consequences of voting \u201cno\u201d would be to cut property tax revenue in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 05:25:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449977,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449962\/revisions\/2449977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}