Burt, I seriously hope you don't drive all the way from Edmond to Midwest City just to save 1% on an appliance! Gas is almost $3/gallon and your time spent driving must be worth something to you! If you buy a $500 item you saved a whopping $5!! The drive from Edmond to Midwest City and back is going to burn that up in gas!! Now maybe if you were buying a $1000 appliance, the $10 you save by making that drive might just make it break even.

People, it's a penny! For only 15 months!

On another side of the coin (penny), the direct revenue from ticket sales, parking fees, and concessions are NOT the only places money from an NBA team will go. People coming to the games will go to restaurants, buy gas, stay in hotels, and go shopping at stores/malls in the City.

And residents of the City are NOT the only ones who will pay this one penny sales tax. Every day, thousands of people from other cities around the metro area and cities and towns from around the state, visit the City and spend money.

This one is a no-brainer folks - I hope enough of you voted yes!

If you don't like it...don't shop or buy products within the OKC limits. Also, don't show up to events at the Ford Center. If you don't help fix it, you should not share the benefits.

If you don't like it, move to Seattle.

Well, I don't get a water bill because I have a well. And I live within the city limits of OKC. But are they saying that if I show up to vote, I may not get to vote? What did they do, send out a survey of people who intended to vote "yes" and then only put those people on the voting registry at the polling places? This was the first year since the city tax rebate that I did not get to file for it since I did not qualify. No matter what your opinion is, the supporters are running fraudulent advertising. They say in bold letters "NO TAX INCREASES." Isn't that an outright non-truth? Isn't this a new sales tax? Or is that a play on words where one tax expires and this one takes it over. But isn't that a non-truth because if the status quo existed, we would get a reduction in taxes without this tax. So, in reality, there IS a tax increase because a NO vote would result in lower taxes for the citizens of OKC. You see what I'm saying? Its a play on words that you can run several different ways. Its like if I shoot one person a day, and then announce I wont shoot anyone, but then I renig and do shoot someone, can I say, "no new victims." Is a "new" tax not a "new" tax because it replaces an old tax? If a tax is 8.375 percentnow, and on XX/XX/XX it goes to 7.375 percent and I am looking forward to the 7.375 percent just to keep from buying all my appliances from the MWC Best Buy just to save 1%, then that is the new benchmark, right? With the benchmark being 7.375%, Cornett comes along and raises another percent, isn't that a tax increast?

David, the Oklahoma Open Records Act does apply to city business. I don't believe we'll have the option to democratically approve or disapprove the lease, though. The city council will make that decision.

The real question that we're voting on is, do you believe our city government is operating in good faith with the local citizenry? Well, do you? Do you think they are up to some kind of hijinks? Mick Cornett did help bring the Hornets here for 2 years. Was that a trick? Did people love them? Did we sell out almost every game? Yes, and yes. I believe in this city government. I have faith that they are actually working with the betterment of this city in mind. There are so many off-roads you can take to build a protest, but the main road says, "do you believe in OKC, or don't you?"

If this thing does pass I believe the people have the right to review the Lease that wil be signed between the city and the owner of the basketball team and then vote to allow the lease to be used. I have a sneaky feeling they dont want that Lease to be made public.

What? I already voted yes, and I was expecting to get into EVERY event for free, not just NBA games. I'm sure I heard Mick Cornett himself say that he'd mail me an all-access pass if I voted yes. It's only those that vote no that have to pay to get in.

The funny part about this crap the city is offering is the fact that, YOU THE TAX PAYER will pay for the upgrades to the ford center and build a practice facility for bennett and the nba, the city will turn around and lease these buildings to them for loads of money and YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO FORK OUT LOADS MORE MONEY TO GET IN THE DOOR TO WATCH THE GAME! You would be DUMB to vote for this! VOTE NO!!!!