Must have been a stand in...
Commissioner Diane Jovick-Kuntz was quoted in the Tribune this morning on the 5-minute (formerly, 3-minute) rule for public comment at City Commission meetings:
I was never in favor of time limits. When people take time to voice their opinion or concerns, whether it is for one minute or 20 minutes, it is our obligation to listen to what they have to say.
Amazingly, when one reviews the records of the applicable meetings, here and here, both Resolutions passed with 5-0 votes. So Ms. Jovick-Kuntz voted for things she was "never in favor of."
Conscience or consensus?
5 comments:
The thing that really struck me in the comments this a.m. was the suggestion made by ms. edna hensely that a public meeting is different than a meeting held in public! Where IS this woman from?! I would ask ms. edna just WHEN the public was offered a chance to VOTE on this damn thing! She also exhibited the extreme arrogance and contempt the current commission has for the public. She said that at some point, the board must move on and "make the decisions the public has 'entrusted' them to make"!!! HUH?? This is EXACTLY the contempt and disdain that ms. jovuntz showed in the first debate. When asked why no vote, she basically implied that once elected, she was free to do what she wanted! This is WAY wrong! These people are entrusted to REPRESENT THE PEOPLE of GF, and if no one WANTS this damn plant, they have the duty to see that it is NOT built! I don't buy into this notion that they simply do what they want to, ESPECIALLY since there was NO public meetings on the coal plant, nor a public vote. Hensley is NOT the one for the job.
LK
I thought Hensely made her point very well. She may not be the most educated of the candidates but she always seems to bring a fair amount of wisdom to the debate.
She would have voted against it if she would have not voted for it.
None dare call this doubletalk.
If she didn't agree with limiting free speech, then why didn't she exhibit the moral courage during discussion after the motion was seconded? Morale courage is'nt easy, and to 'buck' your peers ain't easy of course, but nobody said it was easy when you assume the mantle of leadeship.
If there ever were a bald-faced lie, it's right here in her quote...'When people take time to voice their opinion or concerns, whether it is for one minute or 20 minutes, it is our obligation to listen to what they have to say.'
I speak from a personal experience when I say, that is a lie.
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