TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY PETITIONERS AGAINST DOWNTOWN CONVENTION HOTEL DEMAND VOTE WITH NOTICE TO LEGAL DEPT.!!!



An upcoming petition battle gets one step to a courtroom confrontation with this legal note sent today.

The word . . .

"Today, CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT delivered to city hall the following letter demanding city hall follow the city charter and let the voting public decide if they want to put taxpayer money into a downtown hotel. . . ."

The money line . . .

"Therefore, under section 701 of the Charter, the Committee of Petitioners hereby certifies to you that they require their ordinance to be submitted to a vote of the electors in its original form as submitted to you by them. Under section 703 of the Charter, the Committee requests that you certify this to the Council at its next regular meeting, and that the Council submit the Committee's proposed ordinance to the electors at the next available municipal or state election held not less than thirty days after today for which the City can lawfully provide required notices to the election authorities without seeking a court order."

Now . . .

FIRST AND EXCLUSIVE ON TKC . . . CHECK THE NOTE IN ITS ENTIRETY WHICH EXPLAINS THE LEGAL STANDING OF THE PETITIONERS CONTRARY TO CLAIMS FROM CITY HALL COUNSEL!!!

Remember that Mayor Sly proposed a bit of legislation blocking this petition and THOUSANDS of local voters who signed it. Now the choice is up to the council.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. For the most part, city hall is above the law.

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  2. If anyone is willing to pay attention, this movement is no longer about protecting taxpayers and holding the government accountable. It is purely about power. And now, this group is prepared to waste even more tax dollars by forcing the City into a lawsuit that the City will inevitably win.

    The end result will be more government spending.

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  3. For once the loyal opposition is not going to screw around with the Nay Sayers at City Hall. This is the first step in suing the city council and the law department. I'm in for a hundred. Tack em to the wall.

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  4. Please consider donating some money - perhaps your life savings - to the Grifters for Irresponsible Grifterment, since all these time wasters are trying to do is line their fucking pockets with the money of suckers like you.

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  5. Councilwoman Hall is looking smarter every day. For the rest of the council, it's the first day of school.

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  6. Saying it don't make it so, 4:13. Make your case. Otherwise your just blowing smoke.

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  7. My case is this:

    Citizens for Responsible Government was formed for the purpose of serving as a government watchdog. Presumably, their ideal would be for government to behave responsibly. Part of that would include the notion of fiscal responsibility (which is really the main principle of this group).

    They asked the City Council to put the convention hotel to a citywide vote. Unfortunately, the City declined (I would support this going to a public vote), but based on the specific framework of the City Charter and the pre-existing petition process. The process itself suggests that there are exceptions to when the referendum would be valid (for example, it does not apply to resolutions, only ordinances).

    By challenging the City to defend itself in court, Citizens for Responsible Government is going to force the City to spend tens of thousands of tax dollars just for the sake of arguing with their group - to me, this seems unnecessary and further looks like the group is only doing this for a political victory (on the very off-chance they are successful). Most legal experts would probably agree that the odds of the City losing are low, so requiring the City to go to court would be a guaranteed waste of money that would not otherwise be spent.

    You can't say you want fiscal responsibility while intentionally forcing the government to be fiscally irresponsible... unless your real purpose is to promote your group's own influence and power over City Hall.

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  8. Time to get serious and start confronting this power mad two faced so called Mayor Sly James and his lackeys before he bankrupts us citizens.





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  9. Mayor Sly needs to raise taxes on the poor people so they can get better services! He can then move some emergency Hotel or Soccer Field money and set up some pop up soup lines along the toy train route!

    Frosty!!!!!!!!

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  10. Tuning in to Ruckus. Thankfully no Gaping Buttholio on the panel. I think they realized after one session, they had a loser in their midst.

    But then Killa City has known that for over a decade. That coffee shop waitress from Harrisonville is spreading the word on Gaping.

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  11. Let the recall of Mayor Sly James begin

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  12. 5:49: You'd support the voters having a say on the potentially wasteful hotel if it didn't cost money to get that question on the ballot.

    Circular logic much?

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  13. 5:49 PM Interesting that you are fiscal responsibility at City Hall. Could you explain how much it would cost to put the convention hotel proposal on the ballot at the next general election?

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  14. The hotel will be built long before the opposition will even get a real chance. It's a done deal.

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  15. Hotel opponents got snowballed. They needed to do a referendum on the Old Council's vote to build the hotel -- something that would have STOPPED the hotel cold, but which would have required twice as many signatures.

    By choosing to try to use an initiative petition -- easier to do but ineffective -- they let the hotel ordinance go into effect. Once the contracts were signed, any ordinance under the initiative would ONLY apply to FUTURE hotels, not this one. DUH! Besides which it was written ineptly, conflicting with state law.

    Once the referendum was not pursued, there was NOTHING the NEW Council could do to stop the process. The moral of this story is not that the New Council is doing anything wrong by refusing to put a flawed initiative on the ballot. The moral is that when you want to fight City Hall, you have to hire good lawyers and do it right. Enthusiasm is NOT enough.

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