Group gives up ballot initiative to stop Honeywell plant
Kansas City Peace Planters, a group trying to prevent Honeywell from building a shiny new weapons plant, have given up on their effort to get the issue on the November ballot. The group had collected more than 4,000 signatures on a petition to get a vote on the plant on the ballot, but the City Council voted to block the measure from being put before voters.
On their website, Kansas City Peace Planters released a statement saying that fighting the council on the matter would lead to a drawn-out court battle. The statement read in part, “The group has reviewed certain documents provided to it by the interested parties today. The documents are classified as “sensitive” by the Federal Government, and are, therefore, subject to dissemination restrictions. Based on a review of the documents, KC Peace Planters has concluded that even if they were to prevail in the action currently pending in the Jackson County Circuit Court, all parties involved would necessarily be embroiled in litigation for the foreseeable future.”
