The city council should not complain about public speakers who have said what the council refuses to discuss about racism, discrimination and retaliation by the administration of Mayor Carlo DeMaria.
Instead of limiting public speaking by setting up boundaries, the city council should embrace it and learn something about the residents they are supposed to be representing.
The public speaking element of the city council’s meetings has overtaken the council’s inability to reign in the mayor, his city solicitor and the city’s CFO.
Now the city council has begun discussing how to streamline the public speaking portion of the meetings.
That is, how can they figure out a way to muzzle the public speakers with rules and regulations they don’t themselves follow?
How can they quiet the public speakers?
How can the council stop the political uprising now taking place in Everett instead of taking part in it for the better public good?
The city council appears more interested in getting out of the meetings early without having to discuss distasteful issues like racism.
This would make the meetings “better” and “quicker” they seem to be saying.
Continue reading “Council Must Protect First Amendment”