Property tax relief talk won’t fool us this time

Mayor Ron Corbett, my husband and I usually vote Democrat. During the last mayoral election, we listened to you say numerous times how you were going to be a mayor of the people, there for everyone. Knowing you had drive and the ability to get things done, we took a chance and voted for you. Now, after some time in office, you ask us to trust you with a 20-year (extension of the local-option sales) tax. It seems whenever local politicians want our vote, they have a three-word lie they're fond of: property tax relief.

That is what they said for the current five-year LOST (10 percent for property tax relief). Yet in your commercial, you talk about buying flood properties and not a word about tax relief.

Then comes the Physicians' Clinic of Iowa medical mall. Couldn't possibly have a skywalk; it just have to have Second Avenue stop right at its monument. Lots of people gave you a lot of good reasons why it was a bad idea but you blew them off, saying you “had the votes (city council).”

Now you tell us that 10 percent of the extended LOST money would go to property tax relief. We will be voting no May 3, our policy being fool us once, shame on you.

Shirley A. Morris

Cedar Rapids