Go and have lunch with your City Manager. If you live in a small town get the Mayor involved by inviting him too.
Generally these men are too busy to educate themselves about this kind of thing until they require money to fund it. If the big businesses in town are for it, then the politicians are for it too.
Bring out what happens to the Mayors kids and grandkids under this system. You would be surprised how patriotic some of these folks are. They just need the data to fight it with and none of the Councilmen are going to give it to them.
We live in an unincorporated area of our county. The only concern for the nearest city is to annex us and our water wells into their tax base. Judging from what I know, their politics are clearly aligned with big development while our neighborhood group is interested in independence. (incorporated village)