Hey Politi"Fact," What Is This Problem the School Bond Commercial Highlights?

May 11, 2011

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You’ll find this “dangerous” situation at East Sylvan Middle School according to the producer of the commercial who talked to my producer.
What is this on the wall, anyway? Is it really a hazard? Is that an inspection tag of some sort?
We’ll let you sort it out Politi”Fact.” It might require some reporting.   After all you are used to spoon fed examples from your friends where you take the claim, expand it, and then find some tertiary claim/opinion to “check” to and discredit the entire report or point.
This should be right up your alley.
That being said, of course, the teachers union and construction companies who are helping with the million dollar campaign tell you the schools are falling apart and so they need to rebuild 8 or 9 them. This commercial  (below) depicts mostly maintenance issues. What is suggested in this commercial is tantamount to getting a flat tire and saying you need to buy a new car.  For this we’re looking at a huge 9%+ property tax increase?
As we’ve seen, the selection of schools to be rebuilt was based more on politics than need according to Willamette Week. See below:

It turns out it wasn’t entirely based on which schools were in the worst shape or which schools served the largest number of students. Instead, the decision was informed in part by how best to generate political support for the measure.  

Anyone who saw the list of schools could instantly tell the game but it’s nice to have the obvious pointed out by at least some newspaper around here.  And proponents actually admit it here in a taped interview by WW:

School Bond – Politics from wweek.vimeo on Vimeo.

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