Reuven Carlyle set it up so we have to choose between education and transit, and then decides he just can't support us making the choice for transit. How about having a spine and funding transit or education without making it a choice, dipshit?

Ohhh, a sales tax is sooooo regressive?? Yes it is dipshit. So get on it and pass an income tax.

This is the sort of thing you are elected for, JFC.

I live in Carlyle's district. Guess I'll have to write someone in this November, considering he's running unopposed. I can only hope he'll be opposed next time around.

King Rat @1, you gave a better response than I did @2. The irony is that, if the goal is to defeat a transportation measure because we aren't sufficiently funding education, the result is just going to be not enough money for transportation and education. It's kinda like Ralph Nader running for president in 2000 because Al Gore just wasn't pure enough, and what did we get for his trouble? The George W. Bush presidency.

I am in Reuven's district & now I will definitely vote for him!

Gee, I wonder which party was in control of the state legislature and the governor's office for most of the past thirty years when all this education de-funding when down? It couldn't possibly be Carlyle's party could it?

@5 - Yes, and also I wonder who was chair of the House Finance Committee for 3 years starting in 2013?

@6 - How about ending all the special corporate tax breaks? That would raise quite a bit of money.

@2, 3 Why not write a letter to Mr. Carlyle and tell him your disappointment? How better is he gonna know his constituents don't agree with him? A minuscule write-in vote count will just be ignored.

In an e-mail, James Canning, a spokesperson for the pro-ST3 campaign Mass Transit Now, put the responsibility for fixing the tax system on state lawmakers, who "have the power to make any changes they want."

James Canning for state lawmaker! (Once ST3 has passed.)

Try it out for free @8, I'll do that.

Mr. X @6: "ST3 is WAY too expensive and WAY WAY too regressive." Wow, Mr. X is opposed to a mass transit measure. Now there's a news flash. For Mr. X to say his problem with ST3 is that it's too expensive is a bit like Grover Norquist saying he's opposed to a federal tax increase on the rich because it's too big. No, he's opposed to a federal tax increase on the rich because it's a federal tax increase on the rich.

But hey, if Reuven Carlyle can garner the support of the likes of "Not Good Red Herring Either" and Mr. X, maybe he's got a whole new constituency he can start appealing to. Who knows, perhaps there are some campaign contributions in the offing from Martin Selig and Elizabeth Campbell. Of course, all of these folks are well-known champions of public education.

@10 - This. I thought the same thing when I read that comment.

@11 - I bet you also thought that marriage equality wouldn't happen either, let alone from the ballot box. Things change. Go back to Idaho. (And unhide your comment history coward)