And now, an alternate opinion....

StMarysoldtimer Saint Marys, GA Reply » Report Abuse Judge it! #638 37 min ago I had occasion to sit through a council meeting last night and two things occured that has me really ticked off!! First (and for the second meeting in a row) council in its wisdom moved the executive session to the front of the agenda!! Then had the audacity to have the citizens sit idly by for 30 to 40 minutes while they deliberated on "something important" I'm sure!! How rude is that behavior...... Then, to add insult to injury, a young man got up to ask some questions (about the airport) of council and before he could finish his first sentence Dictator DeLoughy shut him up with the statement, "you may not ask questions of council, this is a time to state concerns, not asking questions." or words to this effect. Now I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but aren't the mayor and council members public servants? Isn't "Job 1" for them to be responsive to the citizens who put them in office? I don't know any more. Just some observations...... Oh, please! The "young man" in question was the aptly named Bob Nutter who, for the second meeting in a row, was there to show his ass over the airport issue in an apparent attempt to inure himself to his fellow Green eco-weenie whackos. This "young man" will never see 50 again and looks like he could well be 60. If you have cable, you would recognize him as the old pitchman for the wonderful career opportunities at Express Scripts. For openers, for the second meeting in a row, like some defiant middle grade punk, he starts off by pointedly giving his address as only "from Shadowlawn" rather than his actual street address as required and explained by the mayor moments before. Again, playing to his whacko audience just exactly the same as he did two weeks ago, his opening gambit is to accuse the mayor and council of not responding to his demand for answers to very accusatory and angrily worded e-mails he purports to have sent them all while brandishing copies that he intends to thrust upon all of them there at the meeting. When he angrily launched into aggressively reading his list of questions, the mayor, quite rightly, told him that the "public comments" section was not the public inquisition (my word) section and that he was to make comments - not interrogate the council. Trust me - the ass could not have been happier having evoked that response. He simply rephrased his questions as statements and was allowed to proceed uninterrupted. Now, as to the holding of executive session at the beginning of the meeting: it beats the hell out of the old alternative of having it at the end of a deliberately protracted meeting so that no one will still be there when you might have to come back out and vote on a potentially controversial issue, as was notoriously done in the Brandon administration. The wait was about 25 minutes last night. All seemed to enjoy the opportunity to talk with friends in the audience, including the Topix author, I might add.