Kansas City Star Platforms Indictment Of 'Extremist' Prairie Village Rezone Opponents

A hit piece published by the newspaper this morning is one of the worst bits of neighborhood politicking we've seen in quite some time and we can only hope that dead-tree media allows equal time for a response. Actually, if they were being fair they would've run pro/con editorials together.

In the meantime . . .

Witness the newspaper taking sides against what is a bipartisan group of homeowners motivating people to get off the sofa and take part in the politics of their community . . . And because of that they've been labeled as "extremists" by people who haven't garnered the same kind of impressive neighborhood support.

More to the point . . . 

EXTREMISTS??!? IN PRAIRIE VILLAGE??? REALLY??? THEY WANT  TO THWART YOUR BACKYARD SHED, NOT STORM THE CAPITOL!!!

Here's the money line . . .

"The people who are rising now in opposition to the efforts to establish some remediation of Nichols’ trajectory are not bipartisan, nor centrist, as they contest. They emanated from an extreme, right-wing group called Northeast Johnson County Conservatives. These are not your father’s Republicans. The group attempted to thwart civil rights initiatives that Prairie Village codified for the tiny minority of nonbinary folks in 2018, and they are hell-bent on not losing more ground to societal evolution this time with affordable housing considerations."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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