Nice roundup of a petition and voter action against corporate cronyism in Kansas City at the behest of a big money corporation and very rich lady. We've followed the petition process every step of the way but the summary includes a lot of important deets: The fight against Shirley Helzberg's Crossroads tax-incentive request rages on
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This is so typical of what passes for local government in KCMO.
ReplyDeleteA tiny minority of registered voters turn out in municipal elections and elect people who seem like nice folks and who promise them whatever they want to hear at endless "town hall meetings".
The electeds are also people who have no knowledge and even less interest in what a city government actually is responsible for, say public safety, so their actions are naturally driven by others who are in their faces daily, people like developers, grifters, attorneys, and assorted salesmen of every description.
Then when decisions like TIFs, subsidies, streetcars, or any of the other endless laundry list of special interest deals gets approved, the marching, petitions, boycotts, protests, and demands begin.
There are more "activists" in KCMO than there are voters on election day.
Your chance of changing how things work was the election.
Take advantage it.
Steve V does a good job of pointing out that we're drowning in shit and most people don't even recognize it.
ReplyDelete6:47 why would a voter waste their time on election day. The choices were between dumb and dumber. If anyone who with integrity and intelligence were to run they would receive zero campaign contributions, the Star would editorialize against them daily, there would be crony capitalist funded PR firms cranking out disinformation about them and if they were in business the Chamber of Commerce would probably attempt to bankrupt them.
ReplyDeleteSo we will continue on with incompetent, corrupt leaders. I fought the battles for several years but realized you are playing with a stacked deck. Vote with your feet, I did.