City Republican Chairman Art Mocabee issued this statement this morning:
In light of Ellen's arrogance in responding to the her scripting, further comment is warranted.( "No apology")
What would have happened if some councilmen refused to follow her attempt to control the flow of business? Is this what she calls leadership? It is more micro management then some others have been accused of. However, the overriding problem I have is that so many of our elected officials went along with the script. It proves just how dysfunctional this council is.
Councilman Minor and the Democrats call it "meeting preparation". I would argue that it is direct manipulation of an issue to achieve a desired result, otherwise known as a fix!
If our elected officials can not think for themselves, then they either do not or can not understand the "complexities" or the "legal issues" of the City's business as Dean Kilbourne suggests. In my opinion, those Councilmen who need a script should not be conducting the City's business if they don't understand it.
This issue being scripted, (BDDC) I happen to support and am pleased with the fact that it is a reality.How- ever, what about the people who do not support it? I think they may feel robbed of their representation.
What else was scripted by her?...the Burgryn Property debate...the purchase of the mall. Is the failure of the Roberts Property funding from the Bd. of Finance an example of what happens when you do not follow her script?
Bottom line is that it is bad management, bad government, bad for the process and the taxpayer and voters once again takes it in the end!
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I don't often agree with what Mocabee has to say, but on this issue I do 100%. Zoppo has the arrogance and the mentality these days of my way or the highway. I think it should be the highway leading out of Bristol, with her riding on it.
The Republican Party chairman has an awful lot of questions. I have just one for him: Have you asked the Mayor (a Republican) why he went along with the so-called "script"?
...Because the Mayor, like you, Frank & McCauley are intimidated by Ellen?
The irony is he wasn't complaining last January when his guy (the mayor) couldn't get out of his own way and she chaired the meeting. I don't like or dislike her one way or the other but she does run a good meeting & that one was no exception. If Art hadn't signed on to the Johnson campaign and left his incumbent mayor to swing in the wind, I bet Art Mocabee would be squirming in the position of having to defend her because it is the only thing that Stortz can or will be able to point to as something he proposed that actually got done, no thanks to him.
So how come no reporter has been able to get Stortz to comment on the scripts?
Only The Shadow knows!
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