Schuh and others remember how anyone who raised questions about Schneider's grossly inflated figures was branded anti-baseball. The county has used a tax on car rentals to pay for the new stadium, as well as for the completed renovations to the city's Hi Corbett Field, where the Colorado Rockies train. Supervisors levied the tax in 1997 and did not anticipate the anger it would cause. It's clearly the most confusing, poorly administered and difficult tax. RVers with lots of time on their hands have joined forces with park owners to battle the tax.
Communication is swift and furious.
And the RVers' anger ignores the rate increases park owners have levied. They've engaged irrepressible lobbyist and former state lawmaker Scott Alexander, who earlier attempted, but failed, to land a contract to lobby state government on behalf of the county. Now he says the RV tax unfairly targeted a single industry and single group. He has allies in Tucson, including Democrats from District 11, Sen. Elaine Richardson and Rep. Carmine Cardamone. The district, like that of McGibbon's District 9, includes a number of big RV resorts as well as smaller parks.