Go Commerce City Tea party Rebels!

COMMERCE CITY -- Angry business owners threw "tea" outside City Hall today to protest a planned forced annexation, which they say will raise their taxes but provide little or no benefit.

Art Crocfer, a homeowner in the area up for annexation, said, "Commerce City wants me to enter into the city without asking my permission? What is this? The United States of America or the United States of Dictatorship? Why did I serve my country if this is how I'm going to be treated?"

The protesters found an ally in state Sen. Lois Tochtrop, D-Adams County, who told them: "What Commerce City is doing is morally wrong, to annex property to add to the tax base and giving folks no say."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/13/angry-biz-owners-throw-tea-party-commerce-city/

Great story, the whole thing is interesting. Commerce City is using the excuse of road maintenance to justify local tyranny.