EMPTY PODIUMS…………….
Looks like newly- elected Commissions all around……are joining in to keep the podiums empty…muzzle their critics… turn a blind eye …and a deaf ear…to freedom of speech and public comment……
Previously posted…Pompano Beach…here in LBTS…and now Cooper City….OUCH!…
Term limits will not be required…any more…2-4 years and these “thin-skinned politicians…will be history….
Sentinel 2/12/09……(excerpts…link to story below)……
‘Cooper City Commission sends public comments to the end of the line
Residents angry over bid to ‘squelch dissent’
‘COOPER CITY – Thin-skinned commissioners afraid of a little criticism are muzzling residents at City Hall, critics claim.
A new policy forces residents to wait until the end of late-night meetings before they can speak about items not scheduled for discussion.
Mayor Debby Eisinger defended the policy as a way to “conduct the business of the city” while preventing residents from being “disrespectful, discourteous, abusive and slanderous.”
“It’s an attempt to squelch dissent,” he said. “They don’t want anybody to be a troublemaker because they don’t want any negative publicity.”‘
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/cooper_city/sfl-flbcoopermuzzle0212sbfeb12,0,984483.story
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