Missouri House Backs Requiring Local Approval For City-County Merger

[Sherman A1]

The Missouri House overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment requiring local approval for a city-county merger.

Whether that plan makes it to voters is an open question, especially since Rep. Dean Plocher’s measure needs to get past a potential Senate filibuster.

Plocher’s amendment is in response to the Better Together plan, which seeks to create a metro government overseeing St. Louis and St. Louis County.

The Des Peres Republican does not like how the proposal is going to statewide voters — so he got the House to vote 143-10 for a competing statewide ballot measure stipulating that approval from city and county voters is necessary for the plan to go into effect.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/missouri-house-backs-requiring-local-approval-city-county-merger

[Kurt V.]

1. as it should be.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Absolutely. What in the h*ll does anyone in the rest of MO have to do w/ the STL region merger?...

These people in the outstate region of MO do not give a fiddle about what happens in STL anyways, and love to bitch and moan too, single mindedly, about the crime etc. in the big city. I seem to recall that the crime about where I lived near Lebanon MO was worse than what I've put up with here in STLMO. Hypocrites.

It doesn't seem fair that outstate voters, having no say in paying our bills here in STLMO, have any rights what so ever in deciding what we here in the STL region get to do.