Who is behind the signs?

Someone with the moniker 'Roaring Lion" wants to know who is paying for all of the signs in the village telling us how to vote on the open space bond. "RL" is also wondering how long we'd be paying for the bond, and why the journal (I assume the Albuquerque Journal) isn't covering this.

EL Picador has some answers:

First, El Picador has a pretty good idea of who is SUPPOSED to be paying for the "yes" signs. That would be the members of the open space bond committee, appointed by the mayor for the expressed purpose of promoting the bond. The names of these individuals should be available at village hall (344-6582, or on the web at villr.com).

As for the "vote no" signs, that's a tougher one. The signs do not say who paid for them (that was once a violation of the village campaign ordinance, but Larry gutted that a while back. Now its coming back to bite him on the keester). El Picador knows of many villagers who are opposed to the tax and are fighting it actively. One or more of them are probably paying for the signs.

The bond is for twenty years. So, in twenty years time someone else will be asking us all to vote on another bond, promising that it won't raise our taxes while conveniently forgetting to mention that our taxes would go DOWN if the new bond fails!

The Journal devotes scant coverage to the village, despite the fact that Tom Lange, the owner, supposedly lives here. The reporter detailed to the village beat has many other duties, and EL Picador suspects that political pressure is sometimes exerted by the editorial department to keep a lid on any sort of controversial stories. But to be fair, the Journal has taken an editorial position in favor of the bond, and has published another op-ed piece by a village resident on the topic. El Picador has also seen at least one story on it recently. And the Journal is good about publishing letters to the editor in the WSJ. But let's face it---the Washington Post they are not. They never seem to have any meat in their stories.