Here's a clip from this week's commission meeting. Notice the mayor seems to lose his parliamentary bearings in what seems to be his attempt to deny Commissioner Mason's motion to fire Administrator Fred Russell. If you're reading this, you probably know that people are rather upset with the secret pay raises that went out to four department heads and 40 other special city workers while the other two thousand or so suffer pay cuts, loss of benefits or even their jobs entirely. Many are especially bothered by fire, police, and teacher furlough days.
Watch the mayor's spaz level. When Mayor Deke gets excited, I've only known it to mean one thing, and that thing is baseball. My own personal guess is that Mayor Deke wants Fred to stay on until he's got a nice report to bring back from his talks with Ripken Baseball about the stadium the mayor seriously cannot stop talking about.
Excellent video it was nice to be complete without edited sound bite...
ReplyDeleteGood job!
i like when the attorney says, "let me get some additional facts... do what now?"
ReplyDeleteIt was obvious the legal session had not been adjourned by Deke when Mason started to make his motion. He was was recognized by Deke. I heard no gavel before hand. Deke tried to pull a fast one and didn't get away with it.
ReplyDeleteBeverly, he did try, didn't he? The next video I'm posting will be an example of Deke using his chair in the opposite way- to advocate for a motion.
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