Well, the Township has now learned their featherbedding, kickback-taking council is for sale. They are now responsible for ousting them.
It seems, more and more, that elected officials are ignoring those who elected them, enacted laws, voter referendums, etc.
Is it possible to out if the board members have been attending or participating in any ICLEI program?
how about the voters stop paying the bills? - Taxation without representation was frowned upon in these parts once upon a time...
The voters do not have to put up with these communists like leaders and it is their own fault. They can kick them out and tell them to get out of town. Like the old west days.
I wonder if it is possible to sue these people on a civil basis? For what I’m not sure, Malfeasance, illegal takings under color of law? Maybe the Attorney General of Michigan can get involved?
So slap back. When the windmills go up, tear em down.
The ONLY way this B.S. is gonna stop is to tell these bastards they can't run roughshod over the voters.
The arrogance of power. We’ve represented municipalities for 25 years and there’s no place where the “big fish/little pond” complex is more apparent.
Years ago I lived in a lower class, white borderline poverty community, low to moderate crime. The powers that be constructed section 8 housing on the border, swearing there would be no problem, put extra police on, everything. The first week a murder was committed in the parking lot.
A few months later it was announced a 3 story section 8 housing unit would be built at the OTHER end of the same community, directly across a main east west road running right through the houses. (This is FL - everything is one story. Only commercial is tall.) It was like we were targeted for destruction - we all knew it would destroy the community. People were extremely upset.
The people were poor, but we had a community meeting - everyone gave in dribs and drabs, and we hired a lawyer someone swore could get the job done. And he did! There is now a park at that second location.
It doesn’t always happen the good way, but if the folk stick together, and are serious, there are things they can do, even when their politicians are rats. Sometimes you just have to shine enough light on cockroaches.
If they don’t clean out the council at the next election, well, they deserve what they get.
The entire idea behind popular elections is to prevent rule by force of arms. If you have a vote, you don’t win, yet you move ahead anyway, I would then expect violence to ensue. When it does, and it ends up in one of their courts, I’d also expect the perpetrators of that violence to prevail, given no other legal alternatives.
Property values affected by windfarms in rural texas:
http://docs.wind-watch.org/gardner_wind-property-values_2_13_09.pdf