Northern Kentucky TEA Party Supports Efforts To Ensure Kenton County Registered Voters are counted on NKAPC Petition
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The Northern Kentucky TEA Party is encouraged today with the filing of a lawsuit asking the Kentucky Court of Justice to enjoin the Kenton County Clerk from depriving the citizens of Kenton County of their legal right to vote by referendum on whether there is any continued need for the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission.
Nearly 25,000 people petitioned to have this issue placed on the November ballot but the County Clerk has disqualified enough of those petitioners to prevent the issue from appearing.
Tea Party Seeks To Review Tax Petition Records
The Northern Kentucky Tea Party wants its own expert to review records related to a petition drive to repeal the tax that funds the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission.
Tuesday, Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe announced that she and her staff were unable to certify the petition seeking to dissolve the Planning Commission.
Summe said the number of registered Kenton County voters who signed the document “fell below the required 17,491 to certify the petition.”
Kenton Clerk Refuses To Certify NKAPC Dissolution Petition
After months of signature gathering on a petition seeking to place dissolution of the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission on the ballot, Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe has today issued a press release in which she states that she "cannot certify the petition" for reason that it lacked enough verifiable signatures.
Summe detailed the weeks of work done by her office in attempting to confirm the signatures as those of qualified voters but seemed to have the most difficulty verifying names which used initials or were hard to read.
NKAPC Meeting Revisited
Revisit the July 28th NKAPC meeting with the Journal News Writer, Tom Wurtz What is a NKAPC stress-test? Patients are required to watch the entire July 28th Northern Kentucky Area Planning Council Meeting. Why is that meeting so stressful?
Axe the Tax Petition Filed
Congratulations and thank you to everyone that helped in the first step of Ax The Tax. No matter how you spell it, yesterday was a significant event in Northern Kentucky and for the Northern Kentucky Tea Party. Working together with other like minded groups, such as our association with the Home Builders, we can leverage our strengths to achieve even more as we follow our principals of limited government, free markets and fiscal responsibility. Read what the Bluegrass Bulletin has to say by clicking here.
Highlights from Ft. Wright CC July 6 Meeting
On July 6, the Northern Kentucky Tea Party met with Ft. Wright City Council requesting their support for the petition drive to eliminate NKAPC. We have extracted some excerpts of this meeting and include them here.
Change Needed at NKAPC, says Northern Kentucky Home Builders
By: Brian Miller, Executive Vice President, Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky
The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky (HBA) is taking this opportunity to state its position on an effort to alter the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission (NKAPC) and to clear up what it believes are misleading statements made in the public regarding the outcomes that may happen as a result of a successful effort to alter the organization. The Board of Directors of the HBA through a unanimous vote has decided to support the dissolution of the NKAPC. By vote the HBA supports countywide planning by the Kenton County Municipal Planning & Zoning Commission, and believes that organization should employ its own staff who would be charged with fulfilling the responsibilities set forth by statute in KRS 100. The State Legislature allowed for the establishment of the NKAPC by passing KRS 147.
A Tea Party Plan To Put ‘Big Government’ on a Diet
By Jim Waters
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size," said President Ronald Reagan.
And taxpayers in Kenton County in Northern Kentucky are about to find out: no bloated government agency goes down without a fight, either.
Is the NKAPC Business Un-Friendly?
Who would support changing a road name without at least talking to the owners of businesses on that road? Why, the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission, that's who!
One More Example of NKAPC Waste
Have you seen employees of the NKAPC driving aimlessly about Kenton County? If so rest assured they are doing so at the direction of the NKAPC management and have their routes carefully mapped out using the latest in GIS technology. It seems like the all knowing federal government has determined that the luminescence (big word from the government so must be important) of our eight sided stop signs and our three sided yield signs that have served us so well over many years of service are not up to snuff.