Posted on 05/18/2018 5:30:55 AM PDT by george76
When the Denver City Council announced that it would not investigate Mayor Michael Hancock’s lascivious text messages with an employee, the condemnations poured in.
Kyle Clark, the local news anchor and prolific quipper, had a sizzler ready.
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the structure of municipal government. That’s the kind of thing city nerds fantasize about.
Anyway, in case it was too subtle: Clark was implying that the city’s elected officials were getting questionable legal advice because they rely on the City Attorney’s Office and its leader, Kristin Bronson, who was appointed by the mayor.
The tweet was missing some subtlety, as tweets do. The city council was specifically getting legal advice from Kirsten Crawford, an attorney for the city. Her boss is Bronson, but she is bound by the rules of lawyering to serve the council faithfully.
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the criticism is still echoing through the City and County Building.
At a meeting on Wednesday, council members showed growing support for the idea that they should have more freedom to hire their own lawyers. “We didn’t have the option of being fully independent from the city attorney to hire legal advice in that area,” said Councilman Paul Kashmann.
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the current arrangement is damaging perceptions of the council’s independence.
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Denver council “unable” to investigate Mayor Michael Hancock’s text messages.
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on the lascivious text messages that Mayor Michael Hancock sent to a city employee.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverite.com ...
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I’m from Alabama. What does “lascivious” really mean?
Often used with “lewd” and is “lewd and lascivious.” It means lecherous.
Lascivious Williamus Clintonus got into hot water for lying about using Monica Lewinsky as a humidor.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sent suggestive text messages to a police officer on his security detail
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/27/denver-mayor-michael-hancock-text-messages/
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sexually harassed police officer Leslie Branch-Wise when she was assigned to his security detail .
And Democrats are always as pure as the driven snow...to other Democrats
Go figger.
Denver is gone, replaced by Detroit on the Platte.
The Denver Mayor’s son arrested outside of Denver : Don’t you know who I am ?
The mayor, police chief, the DAs office. All the corruption of any minority run democRat city.
Often used with “lewd” and is “lewd and lascivious.” It means lecherous.
Also see Lazamataz
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