{"id":3505,"date":"2012-07-31T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T02:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2012-08-01T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:11:08","slug":"t-splost-apparently-headed-for-loss-in-coastal-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/07\/31\/t-splost-apparently-headed-for-loss-in-coastal-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"T-SPLOST apparently headed for loss in Coastal Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: T-SPLOST was soundly defeated in the 10-county Coastal Region.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this at almost exactly 10 p.m., the T-SPLOST for the 10-county coastal region is headed to defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State&#8217;s Office has the vote 58.4 percent no and 41.6 percent yes.<\/p>\n<p>But the breakdown of county results looks even worse &#8212; at least what I can find so far.<\/p>\n<p>With 61 of 89 precincts reporting in Chatham County, T-SPLOST is losing badly 57.1 percent to 42.9 percent. I estimated that the referendum needed at least 60 percent in Chatham to have a chance of passage.<\/p>\n<p>With all the vote in from Glynn County, T-SPLOST lost by 4,800 votes &#8212; 67 percent to 33 percent.<\/p>\n<p>With 10 of 16 precincts in Bulloch County, T-SPLOST is losing by about 90 votes.<\/p>\n<p>With all precincts reporting from Effingham County, T-SPLOST has lost by about 750 votes &#8212; 55.6% to 44.4%<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that the tax is going to lose.<\/p>\n<p>It also looks likely that the referendum will narrowly pass in a couple of other districts.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: T-SPLOST was soundly defeated in the 10-county Coastal Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/07\/31\/t-splost-apparently-headed-for-loss-in-coastal-georgia\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62],"tags":[561,41],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-Ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}