Citizen Rally to Call for One Year Moratorium
On Forced Annexation
Grassroots members of Americans for
Prosperity, Stop NC Annexation, Fair Annexation Coalition, and
hundreds of citizens abused by North Carolina’s unfair
annexation process will rally for Annexation reform.
Groups will also protest Taxpayer
Funded Lobbying event held by tyrannical NC League of
Municipalities.
What : A broad coalition of grassroots
groups opposed to forced annexation will rally to call on
members of the General Assembly to act on a recent N.C. House
Committee’s recommendation that forced municipal annexation be
stopped for one year, until the General Assembly can craft
fair annexation laws that no longer abuse the rights of
citizens. The groups are calling for massive changes to the
current annexation laws, including giving citizens a vote in
the process and other protections.
Citizens from all across the state will spend the day
visiting lawmakers and rallying in front of the General
Assembly. The group will also protest the North Carolina
League of Municipalities, which will be holding a taxpayer
funded event near the General Assembly to try to kill the
moratorium and annexation reform.
The North Carolina House Select Committee on
Municipal Annexation will make their recommendations to the
General Assembly some time in late 2008. The moratorium would
allow the Legislature to act on the proposals during the Long
Legislative Session that begins early in 2009. North Carolina
has the most unfair annexation laws in the nation. Cities are
allowed to force citizens into their borders with no vote in
the process. Often property owners are left with no increase
or improvement in services.
When: Wednesday June 4 th, 2008
1:00-3:30 p.m. Arrival, Welcome, and Legislative
Visits. Bicentennial Mall. Jones Street side of the
General Assembly. Buses will arrive, groups will be
recognized, and assigned legislative visits will begin.
3:30 p.m. Rally . Bicentennial Mall. Jones
Street side of the General Assembly. Citizen leaders will
detail the horrors of forced annexation in North Carolina.
4:45 p.m. Citizen March. Citizens
will march, dressed in red, in protest past the shadow NC
General Assembly Building, also know as the North Carolina
League of Municipalities Building, and then across the street
to the Quorum, where a “meet and greet” using taxpayer
dollars, is being hosted by the League for members of
the General Assembly.
5:00 PM. Taxpayer Funded Lobbying Protest
. Corner of West Jones and Harrington Streets. Hundreds of
citizens that have been abused by the North Carolina League of
Municipalities and their taxpayer funded lobbying efforts
against average taxpayers will protest the groups’ “wine and
cheese” event for members of the General Assembly. The League
which is funded through tax dollars uses this event to crush
average citizens in the legislative process.
“Forced annexation continues to be a serious property
rights issue,” said Dallas Woodhouse, State Director of
Americans for Prosperity. “We hope lawmakers will create the
moratorium in order to craft fair annexation laws. We also
hope that North Carolina lawmakers will see through the unfair
taxpayer funded lobbying effort by the North Carolina League
of Municipalities, and listen to the citizens of this state,
who are demanding annexation reform.”
Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina recently released a
video that helps explain the urgent need to reform North
Carolina’s municipal annexation laws. The video
highlights the planned “hostile takeover” of the Moore County
community of Pinewild by the near-by resort village of
Pinehurst. The video was produced by Americans for Prosperity
and is narrated by AFP-NC State Director Dallas Woodhouse.
(The video can be watched by clicking below)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SgKit-CkGO4
Thanks to the broad grassroots effort of citizens, the N.C.
State House Select Committee on Municipal Annexation
voted to recommend a moratorium on involuntary (forced)
annexations and satellite annexations. If it were to
become law, the moratorium would last until June 30, 2009.
People can contact their lawmakers on the issue by clicking
the link below.
http://capwiz.com/americansforprosperity/issues/alert/?alertid=11309971&type=ST&show_alert=1
Asheville Public Hearing link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6389876504006613914 | 