Click here to read the News Tribune Online article about the petition drive to change the contract between Jefferson City and Allied Waste.
And click here to read what the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights states about the right to petition.
It seems to me somebody--a lawyer perhaps--skipped some of his classes on the Constitution.
What's not stated in the online article is the part about Arthur Brown who refuses to pay for the mandatory garbage pick-up and states the issue is a violation of Amendment 5 which you can read by clicking here.
Obviously due process never occurred to our city council members, but what's there excuse about the petition issue?
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