https://qctv.org/show/8/17353/
How tough are you? How much can you take? How long will you watch?
It is boring stuff, but how generic city council meetings can be, if Resolutions are ostensibly to be on the table nearing an election.
Mysteriously, the sole three Resolutions on the Agenda were noted by the mayor early in the meeting as removed from formal consideration and a vote.
As background helpful to understand flag mischief, images here, the old flag, here, the new one.
At the end of the meeting naked politicking. First the mayor notes at great length (as the election nears) he is deeply, deeply troubled over things nonetheless stripped from the agenda. (The impression arguably seems he'll be more and more deeply troubled as the time to election shortens.) A hope is he can get through without permanent psychological harm to be able to vote his conscience, such as it is. Then a gentleman named Cal Bahr pops up from nowhere, to also speak at length. And - THIS WHOLE THING IS REAL, NOT A PARODY.
As to that last closing thing in the meeting, [UPDATE: mayor and council imput, starting at about 1:33:00 to end of meeting broadcast at 2:04:50] the hocus pocus with Bahr from not even on the agenda that I know of, to center of the closing.
I think of Magic Johnson's adage on leaving the locker room for the game.
"Showtime."
It did strike me as a tawdry scripted ending, but what do I know? And again, for a reader in Brazil or Singapore or elsewhere, THIS IS A REAL THING. NOT PROFESSIONAL THEATRE.
STRICTLY AMATEUR. Produced by a white folks council duly elected by a predominantly white electorate where Crazy Michele Bachmann used to be Congressional Rep.
American Gothic, and then some.
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A few things. Bahr showing up was legit, it was him giving a legislative update, the bonding bill pending, it being last minute thing about how money is allocated, so log rolling on pet projects, etc., basically done in the dark.
The mayor's comments indicated the flag thing, it was procedure he criticized, it was done in 2024 but now curiously is a Republican thing. Doing the job. Crabgrass lacks any cause to say doing the job was not handled well, the criticism being these politically charged things, they distract from doing the job and wtf is the reason they show up now, the miasma of carrying water for the party preelection cannot be disproven and these resolutions springing up now, again. looks tawdry.
And the mayor will bulldog these resolutions again, he said so, and it is political.
And political, criticizing others, there is criticism to go around. A costly war against Iran was entered with no Congressional saying one was needed, and grocery pricing and pump price are far bigger things than a years old flag-change procedure. Questionable tariff BS and costly war are bigger issues than a years ago flag procedure. As in - Get Real. If getting really political, do it about the big issues - primarily Trump's galling hubris and his crappy judgment, his crypto self dealing, family and all, and the Iranians handing him his ass. He is incompetent, his people are too, and town mayors want to wave one flag against another is Nero fiddling, Rome burning. Stupid is as stupid does. Partisan is as partisan does. Transparency of motive is as motive translates into action, action being louder than words.
There simply is no good reason town officials should be electioneering from the council table, and yet, American Gothic. How it is, town level.
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