Recently, the Shawnee Dispatch had an article about “voting records”. The article at http://www.shawneedispatch.com/news/2012/mar/21/how-do-candidates-voting-histories-stack/ referred to the voting habits of incumbent and challenger candidates for the city’s upcoming election for council and mayor. Basically which elections did they vote in.
Any reader of this blog knows that I feel very strongly about citizen participation in the electoral process.
By the same token, there is another voting record history that could possibly be just as, if not more important. That history is how the incumbents voted on various items that came before them. So, let’s look at some of those issues (ward numbers are in parentheses):
5/14/07 Voted to spend $3.5 million for the Monticello Rd fiasco which is going nowhere, and in which some citizens lost their homes:
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Sawyer (2)
4/26/10 Voted to spend $67,500 to build a 115 foot temporary connection from 57th St to Oak Valley West Shopping Center:
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Jeff Meyers, as mayor, voted for it to break a tie
Sandifer (4)
Sawyer (2)
Kuhn (3)
Jeff Meyers, as mayor, voted for it to break a tie
8/24/09 Voted to charge residents a 5% fee on their utilities
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Sawyer (2)
Jeff Meyers, as mayor, voted for it to break a tie (actually four ties, four separate ordinances)
8/8/11 Voted to institute a ½% sales tax for shopping at the Ten Quivira Plaza Shopping Center
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Neighbor (1)
2/14/11 Voted to eliminate detailed written minutes of council meetings
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Sawyer (2)
Neighbor (1)
1/25/10 Voted for the new trash laws
Sandifer (4)
Kuhn (3)
Sawyer (2)
