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Attention Nashville! This Sunday there will be a Turn-In Petition and Property Tax Protest event at Nissan Stadium at 3pm. Music and celebration of our efforts! Hope to see you there!

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If you have not yet signed a recall petition, do so tomorrow!

Who is that masked man collecting signatures for the recall petition at Howard School

By Rod Williams - Yesterday I worked in Bellevue at the Highway 100 Publix grocery store shopping center gathering signatures for the recall petitions, today I worked early voting at the Howard School office complex, and tomorrow I will be working the Antioch library early voting location. It is hot! Stop and say hi.

There will be volunteers working all early voting locations tomorrow. Tomorrow will most likely be the last opportunity to sign a petition to recall the mayor and members of the Council who voted to pass a 34% property tax increase. All petitions  must be turned in to the election commission by 5PM Monday.

For a list of early voting locations, follow this link. For other petition locations, follow this link. If you signed a Change.Org petition to recall the mayor, you still need to sign one of these official petitions.  The Change.Org recall petition is not in the right format to be acceptable to the Election Commission.

If you have been gathering signatures for a recall petitions, you can trun in the petitions to one of the  Notax4Nash volunteers at one of the locations tommorrow.  If you miss that opportunity or want to gather signatures up until the last opportunity, private message Notax4Nash on Facebook or email at info@notax4nash.com to make arrangements to turn in your petition. If  you want to keep working on petitions over the weekend, please go ahead and turn in what signed petitions you already have, tommorrow.

Join Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Manny T-bones and Politics, Saturday, July 18th.

For more information, follow this link. 

Early Voting Locations Open

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Metro Nashville school board again denies five charter school application appeals, prompts debate among members

The Tennessean -  ...all of which were denied in 7-1 votes, with only board member Fran Bush voting against disapproving the applications.

All five schools denied earlier this year submitted amended applications for review this summer, including:

• Nashville Collegiate Prep 
• Ivy Prep Academy 
• KIPP Southeast Nashville College Prep Elementary School 
• KIPP Southeast Nashville College Prep Middle School 
• KIPP Antioch College Prep High School

Bush spoke favorably about charter school operator, KIPP Nashville. "What I hear from parents are they're very excited about KIPP," Bush said. "I can only speak about Southeast [and] KIPP in my experience. They've been a model steward in our community. They have shown student academic gains. I have not heard one compliant, I've actually heard great things about how KIPP is operating and supporting students." (read more)

Rod's comment: It is almost as if the school board likes failing schools. They would prefer all students get an equally bad education rather than some students get a superior education. It is as if they want to hold back good students so poor students won't look so bad.

Charters have had a pretty good record of winning when appealing Metro Schools Board denials to the State. I, of course, do not know the virtues of all of these schools that have applied for charters but I do know I have zero confidence in the Metro School Board to fairly evaluate a charter school application. I hope the State overrules Metro when Metro denies a charter to deserving schools. Charters have a had a good track record of winning on appeal.  I wish the State would just remove Metro School Board from the equation and Charters could apply directly to the State.

For several years, Metro school enrollment has been declining as Davidson County population has been growing. How is that possible? People with school age children are not settling in Nashville. Nashville may be a fun place for a single person or a young childless couple but when people have children and settle down, the surrounding counties look awfully appealing. With the whopper of a tax increase just passed and failing schools, more people will flee the county. The wealthy who can afford the tax increase and can afford private schools will stay and the poor are often stuck here with no means to leave. We are seeing a hollowing out of the populations with the middle class fleeing leaving the poor and the wealthy.

Download the Recall Petition! Recall the mayor and Council members who voted for the 34% tax hike.

Petitions must be turned in by next weekend, in time for the organizer to submit them to the election commission by the end of the business day Monday July 20th.

Download the recall petitons at this link.

Mail your completed petition to:

NoTax4Nash
P.O. Box 210976
Nashville, TN 37221
 Or
Stop by one of the many locations we have available. Locations

Also sign the petition to amend the Metro Charter.

The NASHVILLE TAXPAYER PROTECTION ACT will:

• LIMIT PROPERTY TAX RATE INCREASES to no more than 2% a year.
• BAN GIVE-AWAY OF OUR PARKS, GREENWAYS, OR PUBLIC LANDS. 
• REQUIRE BONDS OF OVER $15 MILLION BE APPROVED BY THE PUBLIC IN A REFERENDUM. 
• PROTECT TAX PAYERES FROM FAILED PROMICES. Failed Promises: If a professional sports team leaves Nashville, or ceases playing professional games for more than twenty-four (24) months, all facilities and related commercial development shall revert to the people, and all related contracts shall be terminated, including land leased from the Nashville Fairgrounds.

Download the Taxpaer Protection Act petition at this link.