Good evening again, Travis! Travis Pahl wrote to Ed Fischang (aka: shadow)...
Ed previously wrote: > > Ya know, there are a lot of `red' counties in those `blue' states, but, > > strangely enough, not many `blue' counties in the `red' states. If this > > secession idea spread very far, the blue counties might have a sobering > > wake-up call. To which, you replied thusly: > I live in the blue county of King in Washington. The Rural area of > King County are in the beginging stages of secession from > Seattle/Bellevue. The King County Council and executive created a > regulation saying that rural land owners can only develope something > like 45% of their land making the other 55% essentially not their > (except when it comes to paying taxes). That's encouraging, if true. I've often wondered how disenfranchised voters in rural areas in large metro centres such as Seattle, feel concerning the overwhelming socialist mindset taking form in most of America's large cities. By "beginning stages of secession..." what form is that taking. I'm not entirely being facetious here either, since property owners often are being dictated to by the large blocks of metro voters who seem to believe they know 'best' what the rural folks ought to do with their own private property. That occurs often even on much smaller scales, such as here in Boundary County, Idaho. The way that works here is that the County Commissions are selected from three Districts within Boundary County. Now here's the interesting contradiction to that. It would appear that the rural areas should be equally divided up by separate Districts, which they are to a degree. But each of the three Districts comprise a portion of Bonners Ferry, the County seat. Which means of course, that representation in the rural areas is often decided by the larger block of voters where each District overlaps Bonners Ferry. The result of that is the City votes in all three Districts, although the Commissioner candidates running, MUST live within their own District. Nevertheless, since usually more than one candidate is running in both the Primary and General elections, the City still has a great deal of say in who actually wins in each of the rural Districts, since the city is divided up three ways, with each of the segments of the city, comprised within each of the three Districts. In my judgement anyway, there is no strong compelling rural voice when the city has any voting rights within such community. If this were done properly, the City of Bonners Ferry would comprise one District in and of itself, and the remaining Districts would be formed by population count in the rural areas, which would, in effect, give Bonners Ferry voters control over only one of the three seats, not ALL THREE of 'em. Kindest regards, Frank _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
