KC Biz Journal reports that politicos have been effective in keeping pesky voters out of the decision to spend big money on a Downtown Toy Train:
With a few days left before the Tuesday deadline, just 5 percent of eligible voters have applied to participate in this summer’s mail-in election about the streetcar proposal for Downtown. According to the Jackson County Circuit Court Administrator’s Office, 360 people have applied for the ballots, and 50 of those people failed for not including proof of being registered to vote in Jackson County.
To wit . . .
THE FACT THAT LESS THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE IN KANSAS CITY ARE GOING TO DECIDE WHETHER THIS TOWN UNDERTAKES A MASSIVE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT THAT WILL COST MILLIONS ISN'T DEMOCRACY . . . IT'S KANSAS CITY'S MOST DASTARDLY SUBVERSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS!!!
Developing . . .
Politics are such a crock of shit
ReplyDeleteNo Tony, the downtown voters do NOT decide if we construct a streetcar project. They decide if we create a taxing district to help fund it. Big difference.
ReplyDeleteThe Council still decides. Call them if you don't like the idea. But don't say democracy is being subverted because it isn't.
Anonymous @ 12:36 is correct.
ReplyDeleteThe real chance to defeat this thing will come when the tax question is up for vote in September.
Hopefully, the Tiger IV grant application will be denied which will make everything irrelevant anyway.
I don't have to APPLY to pay the fucking e-tax so why shoukd I have to apply to vote on certain issues?
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, I know the answer and the cocksuckers in power do as well.
RIGGED
ReplyDeleteAgree @ 1:10
ReplyDeletewhat a joke
ReplyDeleteI don't think the train is a bad idea but it's off to a really bad start. If City Hall was more honest about what they were doing then they might have a shot but the way they are going now it just seems like a scam.
ReplyDeleteThey don't know it but almost anybody including Clay could challenge them and win in court. Or at least they could stall this backward process.
Great politics. Bad public policy.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the state of CA. and KC have in common? Both headed for the cliff. One is just a little ahead of the other.
ReplyDeleteAn election of this kind, with write-in ballots, shouldn't be allowed to occur unless a required minimum percent register for it. There isn't anything representative about the results if only 5% participate.
ReplyDeleteActually, in the last school board election, the turnout didn't even reach 5%.
ReplyDeletePeople are just tired of being lied to, scared, ignored, and screwed.
Just what the politicos want!
Maggie, you're wrong about the legal challenge. It was tried last month, and the time to make the challenge was then. Judge ruled to approve the vote on the TDD.
ReplyDelete7:08, if you start requiring minimum numbers of voters chiming in on issues, you'll never do anything, as 7:25 points out. If people don't want to exercise their right to vote, so be it. It's just bizarre to watch countries all over the world where people literally die for the right to vote. And Americans can't get off their lazy butts to even request a ballot electronically to participate in an election, or select a school board.
They call him Sly but actually he is just slimy.
ReplyDeleteEntire project has been handled legally and above board. Deal with it.
ReplyDeleteWhose Board?
ReplyDeleteAs I said...Deal with it.
ReplyDeleteI went to the open house at the Arabia museum. It was a good presentation and the plan seems well thought out. The ballot being requested by mail etc is due to the STATE legislature, not anything the local politicos have to do with.
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