Forced annexation protest
Today is a big lobby day at the General Assembly, with several groups coming down to press their agendas here at the legislature. Among those here today are folks who would like the state to curtail city's abilities to force annexations. Click here, here and here for background.
Among those up here are Michael Savicki, of the Cow Palace neighborhood outside Lexington in Davidson County. And yes, that's a model guillotine.
"We've been needing a symbol, in my opinion, to get national attention," Savicki said. If his group were able to generate enough negative press, he said, people would stop moving to the state and then legislators would be forced to deal more quickly with annexation issues.
You can listen to him explain things here:
Funny thing: the stop annexation folks are down here as the North Carolina League of Cities, whose members are on the other side of the issue. It has been interesting to watch the folks who are cross-agendas wander about the building tonight.
Apparently, the anti-annexation people are planning to protest outside a wine and cheese function the league is throwing for legislators tonight.
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