{"id":11173,"date":"2012-10-31T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11173"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:47:44","slug":"vision2-battle-in-tulsa-is-greenbacks-vs-grassroots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/10\/31\/vision2-battle-in-tulsa-is-greenbacks-vs-grassroots\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision2 Battle in Tulsa is Greenbacks vs. Grassroots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporters of Tulsa’s Vision2 tax package have a lot more campaign cash than their opponents.<\/p>

While Vision2 proponents have almost $600,000 on hand, anti-tax package team Citizens for a Better Vision have a war chest with about $11,000 in cash and in-kind donations, reports the Tulsa World<\/em>‘s Brian Barber, who sifted through campaign finance reports<\/a> filed with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.<\/p>\n

“Here’s the thing: When you have a bad product, you end up having to throw a lot of marketing money behind it,” said Ronda Vuillemont-Smith of Citizens for a Better Vision.<\/p>

Her group is mostly focusing on social media, yard signs, buttons and word of mouth to get its message out, Vuillemont-Smith said.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The anti-Vision2 group isn’t required to file a campaign finance report because it’s organized as a limited liability corporation. But the organization gave the Tulsa paper a financial report showing it had about $3,859.69 in cash donations.<\/p>

Pro-Vision2 group Citizens for Tulsa County had raised $589,748.18 for its campaign, “with sizable donations coming from companies and organizations that would benefit from the passage of the tax proposal,” the World<\/em> reports. $100,000 came from the Tulsa Metro Chamber; $37,500 came from American Airlines, and $40,000 came from the bankrupt airline’s employee unions.<\/p>\n

The lion’s share of the $254 million in proposed Vision2 projects at the airport industrial complex is targeted for improvements to the city-owned facilities occupied by the airline’s maintenance facilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporters of Tulsa’s Vision2 tax package have a lot more campaign cash than their opponents.While Vision2 proponents have almost $600,000 on hand, anti-tax package team Citizens for a Better Vision have a war chest with about $11,000 in cash and in-kind donations, reports the Tulsa World‘s Brian Barber, who sifted through campaign finance reports filed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,16],"tags":[861,862],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11179,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}