Hell freezing over? Well-head supports hospital bond ...
... Probably what a few of you might have been thinking when you read Ospurt's entry on Jessica's Well.com.
Fact is Jessica's Well contributors have been known to support local items before, including the Midland College bond from earlier this decade (if memory serves correctly). This is just another example of the how blogs aren't always the anti-this, anti-that machines people make them out to be. To me, talk radio is filling that void rather nicely. Blogs sometimes speak the truth when people don't want to hear it. That, however, isn't necessarily being anti-anything.
Ospurt, for example, talks about debt issue facing the hospital should the bond pass, but at the end he states legitimate reasons people should vote for the bond's passage. He even predicts a greater margin of victory than the jail bond, which passed in November.
For those operating the campaign, no need to frame his endorsement. It is not an example of how this issue can get even the person against virtually everything to change his or her mind. It is an example of the item winning over someone who was probably undecided and really weighed both sides of the issue.
Like Ospurt, I have stated my intention to vote for the hospital although my support is not as strong as it was a few months ago. I keep hearing from people who are concerned about staffing issues, lower staffing pay compared to Odessa hospitals and concerns about the hospital's ability to handle such a large project considering its recent financial struggles. And a yes vote in May doesn't make at least three of the problems go away.
Fact is Jessica's Well contributors have been known to support local items before, including the Midland College bond from earlier this decade (if memory serves correctly). This is just another example of the how blogs aren't always the anti-this, anti-that machines people make them out to be. To me, talk radio is filling that void rather nicely. Blogs sometimes speak the truth when people don't want to hear it. That, however, isn't necessarily being anti-anything.
Ospurt, for example, talks about debt issue facing the hospital should the bond pass, but at the end he states legitimate reasons people should vote for the bond's passage. He even predicts a greater margin of victory than the jail bond, which passed in November.
For those operating the campaign, no need to frame his endorsement. It is not an example of how this issue can get even the person against virtually everything to change his or her mind. It is an example of the item winning over someone who was probably undecided and really weighed both sides of the issue.
Like Ospurt, I have stated my intention to vote for the hospital although my support is not as strong as it was a few months ago. I keep hearing from people who are concerned about staffing issues, lower staffing pay compared to Odessa hospitals and concerns about the hospital's ability to handle such a large project considering its recent financial struggles. And a yes vote in May doesn't make at least three of the problems go away.
Tags: hospital-bond, jessicas-well
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Comment by Ospurt on April 26, 2009 at 2:19pm - Ohhh...and don't forget we are also generally against projects that say they will pay for itself (or incur minor losses) with user fees and "economic multipliers" based on wildly inflated projections from out of town consultants.
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Comment by SiteAdmin@Jessicaswell.com on April 24, 2009 at 12:31pm -
Don't forget the MISD School Bond referendums. We were (generally, not 100%) for those, also.
Sure, we had push ourselves away from our 24/7 online aginning, dust all of the Cheetos dust off of ourselves and crawl out of our Mom's basements to do it....but we did it.
Building classrooms and hospital rooms is one thing. Sticking money in the pockets of private business owners in the name of "economic development" is quite another.
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