Some of my reasons to vote NO on Home Rule
by Sedona Resident Dana H. Varney
- Sedona city government is not nonpartisan. It is under Democratic Party control.
- The Sedona City government spends millions of dollars in government waste.
- Home rule is a money grab.
- There are no controls on the city.
- Health, welfare, and safety don’t matter to the city.
- City lies, no trust in the government.
- People have no say in government spending.
- Discrimination on residents and other party affiliations that are not democrats.
- City makes huge financial mistakes without accountability.
- City calls residents nimby cows as well as other names.
- Rampant corporate welfare, Chamber, Library, and other groups.
- City uses a grant program to control voting.
- Corruption.
- Can’t follow all the money, slush fund.
- City shows disdain for the people.
- Years and years of Home Rule. How’s it working for you?
- City does everything in a panic, crisis mode.
- Made up housing crisis.
- City rams’ projects down the people’s throat. Parking garage travesty. Ugly uptown.
- Roundabouts. Traffic flowed better with traffic lights at the Y.
- Schnebly hill should be paved.
- Traffic, Traffic, Traffic.
- Population decreasing. Chasing the people out.
- Over taxation. City could decrease taxes without the Home Rule.
- Paving over Sedona. Too much concrete.
- City polls are manipulated to get the answers the city wants.
- Change crossing guards to traffic lights.
- Big Government small town.
- City picks and chooses who they let be involved in city work groups.
- City picks and chooses who to go after based on whether you support their agendas.
- Overblown budget. Greed.
- City has doubled the number of employees. 45 city employees make over $100,000 While working people struggle to make a living. Police department is growing and growing.
- Two city council members sit on the board of the Democrats of the Red Rocks. Huge conflict of interest.
- City sued the residents over the cultural park.
- City chooses who to give service contracts to without getting competitive bids.
- City had all the residents’ water bills go up significantly through their ineptness.
- The City Council has important votes when most people leave town.
- A NO on Home Rule would force a city reboot.
- Even though the residents that think they do better because of Home Rule would do much better with a well-run city with residents’ involvement. The people need to take back their power.
