If you’re one of the people who voted in yesterday’s bond election, I have some good news – you’re a much better citizen than me and, ohhh, about 400,000 other Oklahoma Citians.
In case you missed it, roughly 33,000 Oklahoma City voters went to the polls yesterday and easily passed a massive bond issue that’s been pitched heavily by David Holt, Chamber of Commerce folks, and other ruling-class players.
Yep, that’s right — 33,000 people cared enough about a bond issue to actually go vote for it!
Via The Oklahoman:
Oklahoma City voters overwhelmingly passed all 11 propositions in the largest bond election in the city’s history.
Each proposition had to acquire more than 50% of the vote to pass, and each had at least 70%, according to unofficial results from the Oklahoma State Election Board. The City Council will need to certify the election results.
With all propositions passing, the $2.718 billion bond earmarks funds for about 547 projects in 11 areas of city services. Half of that amount — $1.35 billion — is set aside for streets and sidewalks, including resurfacing, widening, street enhancements, and new sidewalks.
That’s cool. The foundation of our ever-fragile democracy is built on the bedrock of small, local elections that very few people follow or care about. So if you work for the Chamber of Commerce, a big downtown employer, or the OKC Thunder — and you actually took the time to vote yesterday — thank you. We can’t take this democracy stuff for granted, and I hope you got an extra voting sticker.