Today in Jackson County, lawmakers are considering two ordinances that they say aim to increase law enforcement accountability and potentially restrict detention facilities in the county. So Manny Abarca is leading the way on this, and I know that we have some listeners who are going to be down there today as the county is considering these ordinances. The first one is Ordinance 6050, and it's been renamed the Renee Nicole Mackling Good Transparency and Accountability Ordinance. That is named after the 37-year-old woman who was, of course, shot and killed. I love how this is framed by Woke 41, living up to their name this morning. The ordinance is named for the 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7th in Minneapolis. You mean the person who is driving a several thousand pound SUV into an ICE agent who was being hit as he fired his weapon in defense? You mean that one? I mean, that right there is the perfect example of media bias. That is not traditional media bias in the sense of like, that's not inaccurate. it that sentence is not factually wrong but it completely lacks context and that's how you can use bias in your favor and you have to really look hard for it right well you know Renee Good was shot January 7th in Minneapolis by an ICE agent yeah that's true but like anything else what happened leading up to the incident that resulted in Renee Good getting shot. And that is her putting her vehicle into drive and coming within, I mean, inches of killing the ICE agent. So that's the kind of stuff that, you know, you see in news all the time and it drives you nuts. So anyway, the ordinance would require law enforcement officers performing official duties in Jackson County to keep both their faces and badges visible to the public. Exemptions include undercover assignments, tactical operations, medical equipment requirements, and other urgent situations with written documentation. This is a joke. The only thing that's a bigger joke than the ordinance is Manny Abarca. That's it. first off they have no control over the feds in these ice arrests and you can call these ice I don't want to call them raids but the ice arrests as tactical operations couldn't you I mean it seems like there's a massive gray area in this ordinance that allows ice to continue to do what it's been doing this is all purely politics that's all this is it's politics okay it's it's headline grabbing it's attention grabbing it's getting on tv it's getting interviewed on local news that's it that's all any of this is and then you've got to this ordinance 6061 introduced in January by Abarka aims to prevent detention centers from operating within Jackson County the two ordinances are being considered together as Abarka says to Channel 41 the goal is accountability it's not to go after undercover cops or anything like that this is to keep people safe and keep officers safe if you were not doxing people this would not have to happen they would not have to mask themselves up in many cases i mean heck you've got the guys who own that warehouse down in south kansas city the anderson brothers with platform ventures i mean They've been doxxed over the last few weeks for potentially selling their warehouse to DHS. These guys had their names, their images, their phone numbers plastered all over social media by the same people who were trying to dox ICE. And then you wonder why people are concerned about their security and they don want to step outside without a mask on if they work for ICE Look in the mirror Ask yourself why this is happening why we in this environment to begin with where people who are, let's be honest, doing their job, which you may not like, that's fine, but they're doing their job. A job that they were authorized by Congress on the left and the right to do over the last 25 years. They're doing their job. You don't like it, and now they have to protect themselves and their families. And that's why a lot of them are walking around in these masks. Do you think they want to be in these things? Why? Because you're convinced they're trying to break the law? They are trying to spin a narrative that just doesn't exist when you break it down and use a little bit of common sense. So I'm sure this will pass today. I'm sure both of these ordinances will pass today. There might be a couple of nay votes, probably Sean Smith and maybe one or two others. But I'm not going to guess there's a lot of pushback except from the people that show up today in Jackson County to oppose these two ordinances. But there's not a lot that's going to come out of this. They'll pass it. They'll get on the local news tonight. And it really won't mean a lot when all is done. But it'll get the people who are proposing these ordinances exactly what they want, which is some attention. That's it. And then you've got this in Spring Hill over the weekend. So this is you might say, well, Spring Hill, of course, down to our south. Why do I care? Small community. Because this could be your community. This is the same stuff that's happening all over the Kansas City metro in suburban areas and now into more of the outskirts of what you might call the traditional Kansas City metropolitan area. And that's a legal fight in Spring Hill as residents are preparing to take action against the rezoning of farmland for a possible data center, fearing it will transform this area into an industrial hub. So what was going to happen is there was going to be a meeting this Thursday with the Planning Commission, a public hearing before the Planning Commission in Spring Hill on the requested rezoning. It was going to be this Thursday, Spring Hill Civic Center at 7 p.m. It has been pushed back and rescheduled for Wednesday, March 25th at 7 p.m. at the same location. This has caused uproar, obviously, down there in Spring Hill. They want to rezone about 316 acres at the southeast corner of 191st and Renner. From rural residential to M1 General Industrial. The property was annexed in December of 25, so a couple of months back. and no specific business or end user was identified or has been identified at this time. So I've heard from a lot of people down in that area and they're like, we don't want this. We moved down here to get away from the noise, to get away from the city. And I hate to say it, but this is what city councils and city governments are doing all over the place. They are only seeing the dollars at the very end. That's it. They are obsessed with making as much money as they can to grow their little governments and their little fiefdoms. That's what they're doing. And if you left Overland Park for Spring Hill or you left Olathe for Spring Hill or Lenexa or wherever and you thought you were getting away from it, well, sad to say it's coming your way now because it's going everywhere. And that's what these city councils and these planning commissions, which are just, you know, overpaid bureaucrats, mostly. What they fail to realize is what actually makes their community attractive. What do the people that live there like about their community? Whether it's talking about Olathe and putting the chief's practice facility at college in Ridgeview, whether it's potentially putting this data center down at 199th and Renner in Spring Hill. people don't move there to live near a data center. People didn't move to Northwest Olathe to live near a chief's practice facility. They moved there because they liked what was there to begin with. And it continues to be such an epic failure of planning commissions and city councils in not just suburban Kansas City, but now moving out to the outskirts where all they see is what this can do for their bottom line and then how they can potentially grow government further and hire another three to four administrators that nobody needs and nobody wants and nobody asks for That the game That's what they're doing. And that's what Spring Hill has to fight back on. The people have to push back effectively. And I'm going to be rooting for them. We're going to be covering the story because it's not about just Spring Hill. It's really, I think, symptomatic of what you're seeing in local governments all around the Kansas City region. And if you don't think it's going to happen in your backyard, you're kidding yourself. Okay? It can happen in your backyard if it can happen in a place like Spring Hill. I know a bunch of people that have moved out there. None of them moved out there because they wanted a data center at 199th and Renner. Not one of them. it's 9 14 on kcmo talk radio 95 7 fm streaming as always on the kcmo talk radio app great to have you here as we take you up until 10 o'clock when kevin keitzman uncanceled takes over then we'll get to our caller of the day and the most important thing i thought the president said yesterday in his second speech delivered in the wake of operation epic fury starting friday night into Saturday morning. I'll share that with you coming up next on KCMO. Just some breaking news 920 on a Monday morning. Olathe Republican State Representative John Ressman died this morning from a heart attack. I just got a text from a couple of lawmakers on this in Topeka. Once again, John Ressman, state representative out of Olathe, passed away this morning from a heart attack house republicans were apparently just told about this during a caucus meeting that happened moments ago and john represented parts of alathe de soto and gardner his district was basically south of k-10 from cedar creek parkway due west towards de soto and then it came all the way out to the uh county line southwest part of the county line road down to 159th street northern gardener and then it kind of went back east into northwest olathe going as far west as northgate but it kind of cut off there like all these districts it was kind of wonky but uh northwestern olathe portions of northwestern olathe south of k10 up to desoto and then west out the gardener is where john restman represented he dropped dead of a heart attack this morning and um he will be missed that was just announced moments ago during the caucus meeting that took place this morning in topeka with house republicans talking to you at 913-408-7957 let's say you join us on kcmo talk radio 95 7 fm we are always streaming on the kcmo talk radio app as well. Keatsman Uncanceled is coming up at 10 o'clock. Do not miss that as we continue on. Let's get to your calls as well. Tom is in Overland Park. We're talking about these data centers. Spring Hill is proposing one down at 199th and Renner, and that's getting a lot of blowback. A planning commission meeting scheduled for this Thursday has been pushed back to Wednesday, March 25th. What's up, Tom? Hey, Pete. Hey, you're dead on about Spring Hill and the city council. I'm actually a Spring Hill resident. And about a year ago, there was a few houses down from us. An investor came in and bought the single-family home, and they wanted a temporary use permit to turn it into a retirement home. So about five or six couples that would live there. So we got together in our little small part of the neighborhood, and we asked all the neighbors if they would sign the petition if they wanted to reject this. And we had enough signatures to force Spring Hill to have to have a two-thirds vote to pass it. So we're only two cities, I think, in Johnson County that require for temporary use permits for living facilities to be approved by a city council. That law is in place to protect neighborhoods, to allow the citizens to say, hey, we don't want this here. Find somewhere else. Well, we went there. We had the threshold. All the adjacent neighborhoods to the house said no we don want this here they passed it nine to nothing and started lecturing us about how you know well things could be worse worse things could come into your neighborhood blah blah blah So you're 100% right about Spring Hill. They don't care about the opinions of the citizens. Even when you get all the neighbors together and they say the majority of them do not want this, they totally ignore it. So if you don't want this data center, show up in mass, let your voices be heard because i hate to say it it's probably going to fall on deaf ears yeah you're right and that's the sad part tom and it's not a republican democrat thing let's be very clear absolutely not we're a diverse neighborhood we have kids we have single young people we have elderly people and you know what the people from olathia that wanting to build this house is their first time ever doing it have little to no experience running assisted living facilities and the city council didn't even take that into consideration so i'll keep it short after that i'm long-winded but no it's all good hey good good call and show show up good up good good call there tom thank you my man you're right i mean you got to push back against this stuff and when i was saying republican or democrat i mean like it doesn't matter who's in office right it's the same thing with all of these city governments they know best they know better than you you know they've got every reason as to why they have to approve the rezoning for this the rezoning for that, whether it's Overland Park with every apartment complex known to mankind, whether it's Olathe with the chief's facility, whether it's now Spring Hill with these data centers, it's the same thing across the board. Jack in Fairway. Hey, Jack. Yeah. Hey, Pete. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I think you hit it on the head when you were saying earlier, it's the same thing across all of these, you know, bureaucratic city governments. They really think they know best. And there's a just a condescension that happens when you push back, just even in casual conversations with people in Westwood, for example, when they were trying to, you know, put in a bunch of apartments at the old Westwood View elementary school spot. And if you said, well, is that really what we need? They'll always say, well, we could raise your taxes instead. So they're just very adept at flipping the script and always making it seem like if you're not in favor of more density, of more commercial development, and good God, more apartments that's going up everywhere, as you know, if you're not in favor of all that, then you're just going to have to have your taxes raised. Bingo. They really present a false choice on that. That is exactly right. The false choice in every one of these governments, that's a great call, Jack, is it's always that response. Well, fine, you don't want density. You don't want the data center. You don't want the apartment complex. You don't want the chief's practice facility. Well, guess what then? Your taxes are going up. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. What are you doing with the money that you're getting right now? How are you spending the money today? That's what matters. and they can never answer that because they know they're irresponsible with your monies. They know it. They're all growing government. Every single one of these municipalities are growing government. And by the way, if they grow government big enough, it's like with this Olathe bond tomorrow, this $400 million bond, mail-in ballot, right, happening tomorrow. Well, the deadline's tomorrow to get your ballot back in, noon tomorrow. You've got to drop it off at the election headquarters. So same exact kind of thing where if you say, hey, I'd like to see you spend your money a little more responsibly. They start attacking you. You want your taxes up? You want to take care of the kids? Don't you want the kids to get a good education? It's the same narrative every single time. And it's such a false equivalency, but they can't help themselves. They just can't. So that's how they end up jamming all these things through. But as someone told me ahead of this vote tomorrow in Olathe, they were like, hey, you know, they think it's going to pass, even though it might be closer than it would have been three, four weeks ago. They do think it's going to pass. And this person doesn't want it to pass. But they said, listen, when you think about all the employees that are tied to the government in Olathe, they're all probably going to vote yes. So you have to have an overwhelming percentage of people who do not work for the government or do not have any business with the government come out and vote no. And as government continues to grow on a local level, that becomes much more difficult. They're almost stacking the deck against you in the private sector as a taxpaying citizen. And that is a scary proposition. And if government doesn't at least stop growing at the pace it's grown locally over the last five, six years around the country, it's only going to get worse.
