There was to be something and then at the meeting start, there was a change, but either way, it made the statewide daily op-ed online:
Opinion | Censure Walz? Ramsey City Council has lost the plot.
It was a guest editorial authored by former City Councilmember Matt Woestehoff, saying in part:
It’s worth asking who benefits from this agenda. Mayor Ryan Heineman appears to be auditioning for a role in a larger political machine. Our Minnesota House representative — Harry Niska, a Republican — has made the Walz fraud narrative a centerpiece of his legislative identity. U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, whose Minnesota operation is run by Niska’s wife, has aligned himself closely with the national Republican apparatus and its current standard-bearer.
These resolutions read less like local governance and more like a coordinated talking point making its way down the chain. From Washington to St. Paul to a Tuesday night City Council meeting in Ramsey. Residents deserve to know what’s actually driving the agenda in their City Hall.
[...] Council Member Shanna Stewart said in a prior work session that she didn’t want the city divided over a flag. She was right. [...]
Then there are the two resolutions targeting the governor over local government aid losses. The Feeding Our Future fraud is real. The oversight failures are legitimate policy questions. But their relevance to Ramsey is not.
[...] Ramsey has received zero dollars in local government aid every year since at least 2018. [...] The direct financial harm to Ramsey taxpayers from LGA mismanagement is therefore a percentage of zero. A percentage of zero is zero.
Matt Woestehoff lives in Ramsey.
The Crabgrass view in part is in a chicken coop you expect to find chickenshit, but Council table and chambers are not some chicken coop.
The mayor said he intends to not abandon his GOP resolution putsch. Promising more of the same.
Intransigence in the face of good sense can happen. Sentence end, - is tyranny, would have been more dramatic, but less true to actual scale.