Live Blogging: City Council Mobility Fee Moratorium & Metropolitan Park

[Cheshire Cat]

Amazing amount of power to give one in a simple position as Council President.  In anycase, legal or not it was a bad move on the part of Mr. Bishop.   

[TheCat]

Current speaker: we can be the next big music city of the south.

[TheCat]

I keep going back and fourth on Bishop. There are times when he is perfectly reasonable and other times well, other times. Council is acting like a "good 'ol boy" club now that people are not in the gallery. For the record, the people that were cleared out (if they decided to stay) are in the "over flow" rooms watching the meeting on the monitors.

[Cheshire Cat]

I was there and I will never forget him removing Jackie.  It did indeed leave an unhealthy flavor around Kevin at the time.  Heavy handed then and now.  Honestly, I am getting very, very tired of local politicians acting out power plays at the most inopportune times.  It is such an embarrassment to our city.  Seriously, on one hand we have a Mayor promoting downtown with millions and on the other we have other elected officials who behave badly in the presence of the entire community and outsiders.  Makes my head hurt.

[TheCat]

This speaker:

This has nothing to do with noise. If it did the jaguars would be here, the blue angels would be here, the grave digger (monster truck) would be parked out side. This has to do with the type of music. It's about rock n' roll. It's like we are imitating Foot Loose...and you know how that turned out.

[TheCat]

He's a nice enough person, thecat.  Hes just not terribly suited to politics.  He allows his passions and ideology to get carried away with him

Bishop was one of the reasons the 3 year bill on the Moratorium was delayed. He perked up said there were too many questions. We need to take a longer look at it and that would have been the end result if Crescimbeni did not say he would work on a short term solution.

...if my memory serves me right.

[Cheshire Cat]

I just had the most horrible thought.  What in the heck can we expect from Redman during One Spark?  Will he set up a table and hand out religious literature?  Will he attempt to stifle entertainment venues he doesn't like? One doesn't know what to expect from elected officials anymore. One step forward, two steps back is no longer acceptable.  I have been getting messages during all of this from folks stating how amazed they are with the arrogance shown by some on council.  That is how bad this is all coming across.

[Cheshire Cat]

Has the Mayor weighed in on the noise issue in the park?

[sheclown]

Its about the language (or so I was told) of the lyrics which concerned the south bank residents. (At least this came up at the ad hoc meetings).

Clearly we have a long way to go to be the bold new city of the south.

Which words are acceptable?

http://www.youtube.com/v/vbZhpf3sQxQ?hl=en_US

Its all just silliness

[TheCat]

He's a nice enough person, thecat.  Hes just not terribly suited to politics.  He allows his passions and ideology to get carried away with him

Bishop was one of the reasons the 3 year bill on the Moratorium was delayed. He perked up said there were too many questions. We need to take a longer look at it and that would have been the end result if Crescimbeni did not say he would work on a short term solution.

...if my memory serves me right.

Mao Tse Tung was a very conscientious education advocate too.

I feel a little bad for Bishop. I'm not writing him off, yet. This past year based on my few experiences with him at Council he's been a surprising breath of fresh air.

He bought into a ridiculous notion that the pro-metro park folks were a mob stirred up by crazy radio show D.J.'s and over reacted.

[If_I_Loved_you]

Thats a fatal mistake in politics unfortunately.  He just managed to kick hundreds of people from across the demographic spectrum out of the room. 

Its been my experience that now he's toast, politically.

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[TheCat]

Has the Mayor weighed in on the noise issue in the park?

Based on other examples of how the Mayor's office expresses their opinion on matters before the council it would go something like this:

Mayor's Office: The Mayor is happy to be represented here tonight. He is interested in the opinions of the council on this matter. He looks forward to discussing these issues further.

Council: Does the mayor have an opinion or position on the matter?

Mayor's office: The mayor's office is happy to be represented here tonight.

Council: So, the mayor does not have a position?

Mayor's office: That's all I have...*giggle.*

[TheCat]

Bishop calls for a break. Everyone is allowed back in to begin public comments in an "orderly process."

[Cheshire Cat]

Bishop needs the break I believe.  Something else must be going on here.  The action he took is completely out of character with the man I have seen him to be.   I have not seen a break called this early in a council meeting for a very long time.  Is anyone left outside now that will be there to come back in?

[sheclown]

They probably don't realize their mics are still on