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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
. What do you think the SB-2 creators were thinking when they wrote this law and why did they allow its' use in towns, but not in cities?
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I think the SB-2 creators knew full well that power had already been concentrated into the hands of few in cities and that city residents would jump at the chance to have the amount of say in the city's affairs as a town meeting member has. Distributing power from a mayor/council type government to a town meeting type government, would upset the well established patronage/hack system already in place.
On the other hand in towns, where any registered voter can speak up, and indeed truly affect change by squashing runaway spending, the creators of SB2 know that their roadblock is a first step on to truly inefficient city and state style government that is adept at picking your pocket.