So, have the movie rights been sold yet?
Oh great. Now I can’t think of the name of that movie with the single voter in the district (or was it a short story?)
I’m feeling old
ETA: I thought it was earlier than Swing Vote(2008)
Can’t the city council just redraw the boundaries of the district, or is she located such that doing so would cut out too much of it?
I hope she gets a VERY expensive sports car and then votes No. What are the business owners going to say? “Hey we bribed her good, and she reneged.”
Franchise, by Isaac Asimov?
I remember it as a movie where a key district only had one voter and the final stinger was “XXXX was a good guy, too bad I didn’t vote for him”
There was the Popeye cartoon Popeye for President, where Popeye and Bluto are running for President and it turns out that it’s a tie, and only one person (Olive Oyl) hasn’t voted yet.
Well, the last place they’d have thought to look for her.
Redrawing the district probably isn’t that simple. These things come with regulations. It might be simpler to close down the district and start a new one.
From the cited article:
How does a $215,000 investment expected to net $50K/yr revenue profit one person $70,000 annually?
Look, I know it reeks, I’m just trying to separate truth from fertilizer here.
I’m not going to tease out the costs, but the original district levied an assessment on property tax. That’s still in place and coming in yearly. The new sales tax is on top of that.
Redrawing the district to cut out the single voter who currently resides there would be a pretty obvious ploy. I doubt that any court would be fooled by that. It could be easily challenged by anyone with standing, like the voter herself, or anybody who purchased something and was charged the extra sales tax. And the ensuing legal costs would take a big bite out of the projected revenue. Assuming the court didn’t put a hold order on collecting the tax while the case makes it’s way thru the courts.
Sounds like the Blackadder III episode “Dish and Dishonesty,” where they plot to get Baldrick elected to Parliament in the rotten borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold.
No. Disney first obtained permission from the circuit court to create a drainage district, which let them reroute water sources and so on. Later on they got the legislature to pass a special law forming the Improvement District. Everyone who lives within the boundaries of the district is a Disney employee, but none of them own land so none of them have voting rights under the district’s charter. The board that governs the district is made up of five executives who “own” undeveloped plots, which are the only land in the district not directly owned by the corporation. That gives them all voting rights.
What? Oh, different case. Florida bases voting rights on land ownership, not residency?
For water management districts, yes. Otherwise, no.
So could she propose to eliminate all CID-enacted property and sales taxes then voting on it? Because if someone was trying to make me unregister so I couldn’t vote on issues that affect me, that’s the least I would do.
Bump - any updates on this? Just curious.
Lawsuit filed against the Business Loop CID, January 12/2016
The upshot is that they eventually found a few other people living in the district and the tax passed on a vote of 4-3. Our original only voter has launched a lawsuit saying the vote was hinky.
Maybe instead of stuffing the ballot box with votes, the business stuffed the district with voters.