A Kansas City ballot initiative that aimed to prohibit the city from using financial incentives to benefit businesses that perform work for the National Nuclear Security Administration has failed. The Kansas City Star said that with all precincts reporting, the ballot initiative that was generated by local peace groups was defeated, with 77 percent of Kansas City citizens voting against the initiative. Peace groups, led by the KC Peace Planters, had argued that local government should not help companies involved with the NNSA, as the Kansas City Council did in helping finance the construction of a new home for the NNSA’s Kansas City Plant with hundreds of millions of dollars of local bonds, and that local government should instead focus on investing in other technologies. Supporters of the plant and the city’s involvement have argued that the plant helps keep 2,500 jobs within the city.
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