Live Blogging from the CC meeting. Anti Discrimination Bill reading, Bomb Scare

[Debbie Thompson]

It takes 10 votes to pass an ordinance.  In the rotunda before the meeting, I heard someone say the expect the vote to be 10-9, and don't know which way it will go.

I heard the same thing last week.  I forget who told me, but they too said 10-9, we don't know which way it will go.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I totally agree with you Kells.

Read Simms' post Inferences and you might get some better insight as to why they are acting the way they are.

[Timkin]

OK, so this thread has me kinda pissed.  I can't believe the people of Jacksonville allow themselves to be led by this band of dumbasses.  I don't care what their past accomplishments are, I don't care how "nice" or "genuine" they might be as people.  As public servants, they're shit.  I believe they might be attempting to intentionally demoralize the voter base into not being at all interested in what they're doing.  This way they can simply screw off on the taxpayer's dime and nobody will really care.  If that's not their plan, then they simply don't know what they're doing. You spend an entire meeting Bible thumping, and kick the whole thing off with a presentation on Tim Tebow??

WHAT...THE...F-CK....

But if these...people...are who we as a city elect as City Council members, what does it say about us as a city? 

People need to see this crap happening.  I believe at some point, meetings were televised--or still are, somewhere.  There needs to be an expose of some kind about how a city--who seems to be soooo concerned with how its tax dollars are spent-- allows its Council meetings to be glorified thumb twittling, its members getting paid to do pretty much nothing. 

There CLEARLY needs to be a separation of Religious conviction from doing a public service job.  The bill asked to be passed does not ask for us to molest animals, allow pedophilia, walk a tight-wire naked with our significant other. What we are asking for is not to be discriminated upon on the basis of our sexual identity.   Some of our council members, BECAUSE THEY PERSONALLY OPPOSE homosexuality , have it in their heads that because their "christian" calling says that this is wrong, that they have the right to reinforce this , while doing a public service job.   Somehow this must be a conflict of interest.   There are some of these council members I personally like and appreciate, and some of them I can't stand , because they think that their Christianity GIVES THEM THE RIGHT to decide what can be law and what cannot. In other words they are judging, and THEIR OWN BIBLE STATES: "Judge not, lest you be judged"   They want to preach by the bible but are unwilling to LIVE BY  ALL OF IT!!    Kind of a double standard. AND  We pay them to do this. 

IT IS FRIGGING  ABSURD !!!!   WHAT EXACTLY are we paying these people to do ?