This City Council has apparently never witnessed the strength and power of the Common Man as manifested in the Tea Party phenomenon before, either.
they didn't want to hear from anyone that wants unsafe drinking water.
this may sound like a joke but libs operate from feelings rather then rationality.
they have stopped laughing.
It’s a little hard to extrapolate from the reporting exactly what took place, but it appears that the guy wanted to speak on an issue that had been decided the prior week. If the meeting had been in California, depending on what the actual agenda item was, he could have been denied the opportunity to speak at that point, but they’d still have had to hear him during the ‘public comment’ portion of the meeting. Sounds like Illinois could use an open meeting law like California’s Brown Act.
Just as an aside, the Brown Act has one of the best articulations of the proper relationship between elected officials and their employers ever written.
“In enacting this chapter, the Legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards and councils and the other public agencies in this State exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.
The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”
Does anyone doubt that we have no freedoms anymore?
Among Thomas Jefferson’s many sayings, I find these most apt for our times”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
If they had allowed him to speak, it might have been buried in the city council minutes. Way to go, Democrats! That worked out well, didn’t it?
Names, Pictures, phone numbers and email addresses for some here....
http://www.ci.quincy.il.us/Alderman/ward1.htm