Portland art tax campaign fail

Check out this election spam I got in the mail today, in support of the $35/person art tax that the city is proposing:

 

Wait, art teachers would make a bunch of kids disappear? Is that a reason to be voting FOR this proposal???

(Of course, note how racially diverse PPS kids seem to be! Out of ten kids, only two appear to be white. One wonders where in Portland you could come even close to such a distribution of students, given the city's demographics: 76% white, 9% Latino (of any race), 7% Asian-American, 6% African-American, and 10% mixed or other race. I get that it's important to show that PPS values diversity, but when it's this unrealistic it just comes across as heavy-handed. Much like this art tax itself.)

 

Comments

[ambrown]

Your point still stands, but it's important to point out that PPS is measurably more diverse than the city of Portland as a whole:

http://www.pps.k12.or.us/files/data-analysis/2012_Enrollment_Summary.pdf

Enrollment by Ethnicity / Race 2012
Asian 8.1%
African American 11.4%
Hispanic 16.2%
Native American 1.2%
Pacific Islander 0.9%
White 55.6%
Multiple Ethnicities Specified 6.7%

...and the school districts in outer east Portland, such as David Douglas, show even larger percentages of non-white students.
http://www.ddouglas.k12.or.us/files/schools_by_ethnicity_race_and_gender_2012.pdf

Hispanic 24.5% Native American 0.8% Asian 14.3% Black 9.5% Pacific Islander 1.2% White 44.3% Multiracial 5.3%

http://www.ddouglas.k12.or.us/files/schools_by_ethnicity_race_and_gender_2012.pdf

[nlp training courses]

Needless to say, we are thrilled with the results—the measure passed with 62% approval! Measure 26-126 creates a new income tax of $35 per income-earning resident (above the federal poverty level), which will generate an estimated $12.5 million every year starting in 2013.

[For the iPhone]

You could argue in a Clintonesque way that the use of the conditional "would" denotes a hypothetical situation, which does support his contention that he was speaking as if he were not the USC coach.

[matawan income tax services]

Measure 26-126 creates a new income tax of $35 per income-earning resident (above the federal poverty level), which will generate an estimated $12.5 million every year starting in 2013.