Other opinions on annexation

I would like to reply to the guest column from the Wednesday Southeast Missourian Opinion/Editorial page where you gave your weekly blogger almost three quarters of a page to quote dates and bill numbers of possible links of lobbying for a quarry that is north of Jackson.

That lawmaker in Jefferson City got that law passed, but he failed to mention that Missouri Rep. Donna Lichtenegger voted for that very bill.

Also it seemed that the blogger attempted to slam Jackson with his remarks by "extending the tentacles of its city limits into Fruitland." He left out that those landowners who came to Jackson asked to be friendly annexed. They did not want to be a part of Fruitland, and this area was never part of Old Fruitland. Ending this long, wandering column, webmaster James Baughn states it's "harder to challenge cities that engage in illegal annexation." Jackson's annexation was legal, but it was voided by a local judge with support from the Missouri attorney general on a technicality, that also denied Jackson's presence on the interstate.

Remember, James, a small group south of Old Fruitland did not want the quarry, but then wanted the tax from the quarries, then came to Jackson asking to be annexed.

Where were you and the newspaper when Cape Girardeau annexed about 10 miles over the years of the right of way off Interstate 55?

As for you and your front page above-the-fold banner headline "Exemption linked to mine's lobbyist" from Friday, is it now illegal for a business to have a lobbyist to defend their interest, especially when the rules were changed in the middle of the game?

Can only one side use lobbyists like the school "Save Our Children" and also have a state politician working for them?

Donald Kuntze is a resident of Jackson.