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Voters Accept Mint Bond Package Political fasues And Cold Cash: The Means To Win? By Terri Byrum Special To The Post Take any issue and get it on the ballot. Convince your wealthy friends to back your cause with plenty of cash, and you are likely to come out a winner. True? Maybe. Maybe not. Good examples of both sides of the money issue were made Tuesday. Back ers of the Mint Museum bonds launched a top dol lar advertising campaign and won by a wide margin. A handful of people spent a hefty sum urging voters to adopt the 4-3 District Plan and lost due to grassroots efforts from the neighbor hood advocates who led a zero-budget rally for de feat. Despite a struggling economy, it has been es timated that records for campaign expenditures were far exceeded this year. Dan Rather, of CBS News, said the candidates elected were “the most expensive money can buy.” it has become obvious in - the past several years that in many cases, the better financed campaigns yield the better results. How ever, this week’s election results on the two local issues prove that it takes more than money to win. Voters defeated the $10.4 million Mint Bond package last spring and barely 18 months later were celled to the polls again to vote on a “Now br Never” $3.5 mill ion package. Mint backers were de termined not to fail at the polls a second time, so they spent over $50,000 to pro mote the deal. At the onset, there seemed to be no significant opposition to the Mint Bond issue, which would allow a Randolph Road access drive as well as expansion of the current Eastover lo cation to house the Dalton Collection. In the days just prior to the election, how ever, there was an under current of question as to whether the Mint Bond campaign claim* were le gitimate. Radio and TV ads stated emphatically that voting for the bonds would not raise taxes. Many questioned the “free lunch” idiom and denied that residents could get “something for no thing.” Also, the ballot it self clearly said that in approval of the bonds, the voter would be “author izing the levy of taxes in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and the interest on said bonds.” Tom Cox, a leader of the Bond campaign, addressed this conflict on the "H. A. Thompson Show" on WBT Radio Monday. He admit ted there was a possibility that taxes would be raised due to bond passage but said it would be so "in significant” that he felt it _ would not refute the claim Heggy Beckwith ...MASCD director of "no cost” to the tax payer. Perhaps the electorate was deceived to some ex tent, but most were able to look beyond the PR cam paign and support the Mint expansion Charles Cross, director for the Neighborhood Centers, said, “The new Randolph Road entrance (to the Mint) will make everyone feel they are a part of the community which is served by the Mint.” The access road is a key feature of the package and will help enhance the Mint’s image as a bobby for the well-to-do to a true metropolitan museum from which we can aU benefit. Due to the Mint expan sion plans, Shirley Farrar, executive director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, says, "Attitudes will change as the Mint is more accessible. People will see it as a new mu seum.” The Dalton Collec tion of art, which is in line to be donated by the Mint, includes masterpieces by Delacroix, Rembrandt, Turner and Wyeth. Ms. Farrar, who participates in educational programs at the Mint, says, "Through the arts, we can teach our children so very much about our past, our cul ture and where we cane from. The Mint expansion will allow us to broaden our teaching possibilities.” responding to tne ques tion of whether the Mint bonds will affect taxes, Peggy Beckwith, director of the Metrolina Associa tion for Sickle Cell Dis ease, says, “As a property owner, I think it (bond passage) will have to af fect taxes,” but does go on to say she feels the ex pansion will be “a very exciting thing for Char lotte.” Tuesday afternoon, no one on the 4-3 District Plan committee knew a total amount spent on the cam paign for the districts. The best estimate was over $20,000 raised primarily amongst the 34 people who publicly endorsed the dis trict plan. A well financed cam paign is important, such as in the case of the Mint Bonds. But the impact of a single vote cannot be over looked SKIRT A SWEATER MIB 30%*© 40% OTT Rag. 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