Wednesday, november 8, 1978
page 8
daily nebraskan
Voters say no to lid bill,
opponents credit publicity
By Shelley Smith
The Lid Bill, Amendment 302,
considered to be one of the most contro
versial and most publicized amendments
in the Nebraska election, was defeated
Tuesday night.
As of 1 a.m. Wednesday morning the
vote was 89,144 to 76,495.
The Lid Bill would have called for a 5
percent budget ceiling on every political
sub-division that levies taxes. The city
budget would be included.
Herb Schimek, a well-known opponent
of the bill, representing the Nebraska State
Education Association, said he was slightly
surprised at the outcome of the election.
. He said an earlier poll in June showed
that 80 percent of the people polled were
for the bill, 10 percent were against it, and
10 percent didn't even know what it was.
Hard work
He added that a lot of people worked
"awful damn hard to show the public that
the bill would not provide any kind of
beneficial tax relief."
He added that by informing the public
that the bill was not at all similar to Prop
osition 13, which was passed in California
in June to reduce property taxes, helped
defeat the bill.
"Once people found out that the bill
would increase property taxes, they
changed their minds," he said.
As election returns were broadcast,
figures showed that the bill was running a
close race in Omaha.
Schimek said at that point he was
"losing a little weight."
Omaha conservative
He said the closeness ofthe vote in
Omaha was because Omaha
is "traditionally more conservative."
He said he knew if Omaha split 50-50
in the vote that the bill would be defeated
because of the strong support against it in
Lincoln.
Bob Sikyta, chairman of the City Coun
cil which had also publicly opposed the
bill, said he knew the vote would be close.
He said the heavy campaigning against
the bill about 3 weeks before the election
had a great effect on Nebraska voters.
He said he felt Lincoln was campaigned
harder and attributed this to the heavy de
feat of the bill in Lancaster County.
Schimek added that the defeat of the
bill would "stop some of the steam"
generated by the bill's instigator Zeke
Brauer.
Brauer was not available for comment.
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Amendment 300 defeated;
voters reject school aid
Amendment 300 which would have
.provided increased financial aid from
the state to all public schools in
Nebraska was defeated Tuesday night.
The amendment was a result of a
challenged bill passed by the Legis
lature in the summer of 1977, by tax
revolter Zeke Brauer.
Brauer argued that the bill would
rr"an higher spending and taxes, and
would constitute an immediate increase
in the state sales tax.
Proponents of the bill said it would
shift the $55 million cost of public edu
cation from property taxes to state and
sales taxes within three years.
Brauer circulated a petition within
the state to oppose the bill and gained
enough signatures to place the bill on
the ballot.
Ross Rassmussen, of the State
School Boards Association said earlier
that he felt using property taxes to
support schools is unfair to people who
have a lot of land and property invest
ments. "Only two states use property taxes
to support public schools more than
Nebraska," he said.
Brauer said he felt the bill would
increase property taxes and would even
tually discriminate against rural schools.
The amendment was defeated by a
margin 141,877 to 102,397.
Bottle bill capped by defeat,
sinks by a 3 to 2 margin
Proposition 301, more popularly called
the bottle bill was resoundingly defeated in
last night's election by 157,230 to 1 10,030
as of 1 :30 ajn.
By almost a 3 to 2 margin the voters
downed an attempt to reduce littering by
placing a five cent despoit on beer and pop
containers.
Proponents of the bill cited the success
ful reduction of litter in Oregon and Wash
ington States where similar bottle bills are
in effect.
Opponents said the bill was an ineffect
ive solution and would raise the price ot
beer and pop unnecessarily.
A supporter of the bill said the massive
spending by bottling companies and other
opponents caused the bills' defeat.
Pat Jerrison of Nebraskans for Return
able Containers said her group could not
compete with the estimated $350,000 put
up by Nebraskans for Freedom of Choice.
She said her group spent about $9,000.
"I still feel that if there had been just
a little more money we might have won,"
she said.
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