Clay Chastain will speak on the topic of mass transit tomorrow. His citizen initiative petition has been thwarted, ridiculed and turned down by City Council Committees. Now it seems he's taking his fight to the public once again.
Check the presser wherein he calls out a number of local politicos:
Clay Chastain's speech on behalf of the people's right of initiative
Tomorrow, Councilman Russ Johnson, the City Attorney, and others...including the editorial board of the Kansas City Star... are set to try and persuade the City Council not to place before the voters a valid light rail petition initiative signed by 3,686 registered voters because they believe the plan terribly flawed.
These individuals have intentionally tried to divert public attention away from debating the people's right of initiative, and toward the soundness of the light rail petition plan itself.
Tomorrow at 11:00 A.M. (in front of the Abraham Lincoln Statue at City Hall) Clay Chastain will focus on what needs to be the focus at this time...the people's right to the initiative.
Here are a few excepts from Chastain's speech;
"Missouri's initiative law reflects the belief that citizens have certain rights to govern themselves directly, whether wisely or unwisely, and that their initatives shall be liberally construed."
"...Cleaver, Barnes, Funkhouser, and now James seem to view initiatives as unwelcome intrusions upon government.'
"...is not the purpose of the initiative to go around City Hall and the powerful interests that influence it...not endow City Hall with the unmitigated authority to intercept an initiative and sentence it to oblivion."
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In a related, and as relevant, a story... I will be taking a shit tomorrow.
ReplyDeletelol.
ReplyDeleteMust be a slow as hell news day to report on this crap!
ReplyDeleteI don't give a shit about any of the transit bullshit but Clay has a point. Just how many of these citizens petitions are the council going to ignore before we start pushing back.
ReplyDeleteWrong again. Only Reasonable petitions with the right funding and language belong on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteYawn....another Clay Chastain speech about how he got screwed. Maybe he should walk over to that piece of art by the KCPD HQ...the one of the guy with a shoe in his mouth. Perhaps Clay could be inspired by that and realize he could help KC more by shutting the hell up.
ReplyDeleteSo how many of those 3,686 people really had the issue fully explained to them before Clay shoved the clipboard in their faces? And how many signed just to get him out of their faces so they could go grocery shopping?
ReplyDeleteBut here's the problem as alluded to earlier in this thread. 3,686 people out of a city of some 500,000 can force the rest of us to pay for an election that nobody wants and few will even vote in.
And Clay wants to turn it into a "people's rights" issue?
Don't you need a permit of some kind, to disrupt the flow of things? This idiot will blather and shout about nothing but I think, he should have to pay for the space he takes up, in front of City Hall. In fact, the cocksucker shouldn't be allowed on the grounds!
ReplyDeletePlease, oh please, don't cover it.
ReplyDeleteHopefully somebody with good aim will do the right thing tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he will throw a fit tomorrow and get a police escort from city hall. It should be entertaining.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that Clay and both of his groupies, including Tony, will disrupt the flow of anything.
ReplyDelete"Hopefully somebody with good aim will do the right thing tomorrow..."
ReplyDeleteTony, I know you believe strongly in free speech. But really . . .
12:31 (Clay).
ReplyDeleteDUCK!
What does Clay do for a living besides sue this city? I mean really - does he have an actual JOB?
ReplyDeleteClay works for Alonzo Washington. Tracy Ward works in the next cubicle. Airick West is VP of the firm.
ReplyDeleteClay works for Alonzo Washington. Tracy Ward works in the next cubicle. Airick West is VP of the firm.
ReplyDeleteThe speech delivered to one person waiting for a ride home and a homeless dude begging for spare change. One more noteworthy event in the mind of Chastain.
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