Someone needs to retake their civics classes.
Cities challenge St. Charles County’s red light camera ban
St. Peters, O’Fallon, Lake St. Louis, and a councilman from O’Fallon are filing a lawsuit in attempt to block a ban on red light cameras in St. Charles County.
Voters approved the ban November 4, with 73 percent of those who went to polls supporting the measure. However, those suing maintain the county has overstepped its legal bounds.
“Seventy-three percent of the voters pass a ban on red light cameras so what these cities are doing are suing 73 percent of the voters in St. Charles County, within their own cities. They’re suing their own residents,†said St. Charles County Councilman Joe Brazil.
While I believe that counties shouldn’t be able to tell individual municipalities what they can and cannot do in every case, this was the will of the voters of the county. if the intentions of these city councils were honorable, they would ask for a vote in their individual jurisdictions.
But they’re not because they know what the answer will be.
So I have a dog in this fight, as I reside in St. Charles county. I voted to rid us of these vile revenue generators. What you may not have seen was St Peters Mayor Len Pagano defending his city’s decision to continue on with the lawsuit out of principle.
“However, Pagano says based on principle, the cities of St. Peters, O’Fallon, and Lake St. Louis will continue a lawsuit seeking to overturn the countywide ban, contending such a measure goes too far.”
the source for that is here http://fox2now.com/2015/02/17/red-light-cameras-not-coming-back-in-st-peters-mayor-says/
That principle they’re defending…… it’s spelled CA$H