Did you note the poll accompanying the Democrat & Chronicle's front page story on Maggie Brooks?
One of the questions was:
"If it meant a substantial savings in your tax bill, would you support or oppose merging some layers of county municipal and township governments?"
70% supported merger under those circumstances. Gee, what a surprise. I mean, after all, even I would agree to that statement. But I'd have to say a follow-up question would have been warranted. Something like this:
If you said "support" to the question above, would you still support merger if it meant significant reductions in local services, such as, police service?
If that follow-up had been asked, the 70% of support would have evaporated quite quickly. I wonder why they asked the first question but not the second? Oh, yeah, the D&C commissioned the poll and their metro government agenda would not be furthered by asking the right questions.
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