Subject: Re: City County Merger

I agree with you. I don't want to merge with the city nor does Gary Diane

> With regard to City County Merger, I'm constantly hearing people complain about the fact that voting on this issue will require a state wide vote and not just a vote between the City and County voters. I feel that those who say this do not comprehend the effect of what Better Together is proposing.
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> The reason why what Better Together's proposes would require a state-wide vote is because currently, our Missouri Constitution gives the right of citizens living in an area to have a say (by voting) in whether they will annex or be annexed by an adjacent area. I assume that knowing that if a merger were left up to the a vote between the County and City residents it would never pass, Better Together  thought that the only way to get this passed, would be to literally change the Missouri Constitution to take away the right of the people to vote on this issue.
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> I believe that it cannot be emphasized enough that no matter where you live in Missouri, or whether or not you believe that merging the City with the County would be a good thing, a vote for the Revision of Article VI of the Missouri Constitution  as proposed by Better Together is literally a vote to take away your own Constitutional right to have a say in whether or not where you live can annex or be annexed by adjacent area.
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> The great orator and attorney, William Webster argued before the Supreme Court that our Constitution was created in order to protect us from those with good intentions.  I would argue that Article VI of the Missouri Constitution was also created to protect the residents of Missouri from those with good intentions, although I would not argue that Better Together's intentions are good.
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> Lynn Link
> Wildwood