Remember, Weekly World Central contributor Dave Devine’s guest commentary on the city’s adoption of an overlay zone near the UA and the city’s botched rejection of the signatures collected for a referendum to go to the voters? (Tim Vanderpool also did an excellent story further explaining the issue that you can read here).
A lawsuit was filed last month, and although an argument to protect the petition process and to determine the signatures were valid was rejected by the court — plaintiffs went back to court yesterday to appeal represented by Tucson Attorney Bill Risner.
Below is a video of the arguments made before the appellate court. Go to the YouTube page here to look at other relevant legal documents.
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.
Appellate judges seem a little more astute.
Let’s see…the whole measure is at least attached to the clipboards of petition signers and available to them should they wish to peruse it, but the signer is not informed of his/her “right to look through the whole measure” in an explicit way on the petition itself. That is why the city chooses to contradict itself completely from the 2000 Walmart/Sam Hughes case.
I think the city doesn’t mind subverting democracy on behalf of the growth industry.
Give it up Neighborhood Activists! Just how many of you represent your neighborhoods? Did someone voted you to represent them? There’s about 1 million people in Metro Tucson and a significant majority favor urbanized growth! There’s only a handful of you whiners. It’s the irrational tea party like Neighborhood Activist that are subverting democracy! Please move to Benson!!
I can’t wait for people from your neighborhood and developers start spraying you with lawsuits. You’ll see. I got two buddies of mine set to sue some of these Neighborhood Associations around the U of A. They have damaging info that is worthy of front page news. They will drain you. They will empty your pockets. Your refusal to coexist with progress will cost you. NIMBY Association, the rest of your life will be spent in a court room.
But Jack without the Teaparty activist look what we ended up with….obongo!!??…..
Bob Cap, you are a true Tea Party Bushie!! Keep up the racist rant. See ya at the National Socialist Party meeting!
“Give it up Neighborhood Activists! Just how many of you represent your neighborhoods? Did someone voted you to represent them? There’s about 1 million people in Metro Tucson and a significant majority favor urbanized growth!”
Funny, the obvious response would be “O.K., ‘Jack’. Prove it. Join in the support for putting the project to a vote. Prove how popular it is.”
Sure, let the Pima County Elections Division sort it out. That’ll help. Maybe after Huckelberry will stop standing in the way of a forensic exam of the 2006 RTA ballots…