Letter: Effort to protect taxpayers led to long impasse

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 | 8:46 a.m.

As a teacher and recent arrival to Las Vegas, I feel it is my obligation to weigh in on the two-thirds majority law required to pass tax packages.

Ah yes, the best ideas of man and beast do in reality often go astray. I am sure that in the early 1990s and as recently as 1996, the good people of this state who voted in favor of the two-thirds law genuinely felt they were protecting the taxpayer. In truth, given the times and the same circumstances, I probably would have voted for it myself, for on the surface it seems so logical.

In the meantime, however, the hundreds of thousands of us who have moved here since 1996 with our families have witnessed the insidious mischief that the so-called "superminority" have been able to wreak on the families of this state because of a law that, once upon a time, appeared to be a good idea.

Witness what happens to that law if it ever comes up for a vote again. Until then, I strongly suggest the superminority and its "old-money" supporters exit this state and become the local aggravation and "new money" somewhere else.

I am a poor man, but an honorable man, a family man, a proud Clark County teacher and a volunteer combat veteran of Vietnam. I promise you my small voice will be only a tiny part of the resounding thunder and lightning coming your way in the polls in November 2004.

CHRIS CREASMAN