In 2006 when OWOC filed an initiative to stop fluoridation (signed incidentally by more than twice as many voters as this petition) the City sued us to keep it off the ballot.  The case progressed to the Washington Supreme Court where those people lost by a single vote; the Court holding that the addition of fluoride to municipal drinking water was an administrative decision, under the current Code city status. This would not have been the outcome if PA were still a second-class City, where the people have much more control. Remember that the Dred Scott decision of 1859 was at least partly responsible for the Civil War, as it held that blacks were not quite persons, among other things. My point being even the US Supreme Court is not always right. My other point is this: do we really have the right to the initiative process here in PA NOW when the City Fathers can (and do) sue their own citizens to stop majority rule?