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Local Tea Party: Incorporation has ‘tremendous downside’
Although it’s not a surprise (what with one of their core values being limited government), the Cincinnati Tea Party stood solidly against the idea of turning West Chester Twp. into a city, members said during the trustees’ meeting Tuesday, July 14.
Chris Littleton, director of the Tea Party’s Community Groups, passed me his comments before he read them at the meeting. I’ll post them in their entirety later when I return to the office.
Among the reasons Littleton said the Tea Party remains ‘Pro-Township” are that incorporation flies in the face of the organization’s top two core values: Limited government and fiscal responsibility.
“Townships in Ohio remain as one of the purest forms of democracy in the world,” Littleton said. “Residents of those respective townships have a greater say in their community than almost any other type of community in the United States. “Why would we propose removing power from the people to better serve the people?” “We fail to see the benefit of incorporation to our residents. Instead, we do see a tremendous downside to centralized decision making within a city government. That downside is simply taking power from many people and giving it to very few. In this way, we will not be limiting government’s power, but rather expanding it.”
Littleton goes on to say the township has a history of being able to govern itself “for the better.”
He adds: “We don’t need to be a city to see success. We need to trust the residents of this community to continue doing the right thing, and stay out of their way.”
Do you agree with Littleton and the Tea Party on the notion of incorporation?
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