Stan Geiger

TCC Launches Media Assault

As I watched the KOTV newscasts this evening, I caught a couple of ads promoting Tulsa Community College's bid for a property tax increase. It has begun. The PEC is kicking into high gear.

Expect to see KOTV reporters doing stories in support of the tax increase. That's the way it works. TCC gives TV stations your money; TV stations feed you full of BS that makes you want to vote for a tax increase for TCC.

The Tulsa World will, no doubt, grab a piece of the action, too. The World will get ad sales in exchange for editorials in favor.

TCC is pushing the tired notion that more tax money for higher education equals a stronger local economy. Man, if only that were true.

The Tulsa area is up to its butt in public-subsidized higher education. TCC has 4 campuses---plus an office building for executives. We have an OU-Tulsa, an OSU-Tulsa and a Langston-Tulsa. We have a Northeastern State campus in Broken Arrow. And what was once a junior college in Claremore is now a 4-year school called Rogers State University under the auspices of the OU Board of Regents.

If pouring tax money into higher education resulted in economic prosperity, Tulsa would be a freakin' boomtown.

There is much to say about this issue. For now, I'll leave it at this: If you vote yes on a property tax increase for TCC, you've got an incurable mental illness.

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