Thursday, October 18, 2007
They're still coming
Council Vice President Ronnie Fussell arrived at 11:05 a.m. with two people, presumably his attorneys. He shook hands with both Pemberton and me. Five minutes later Hyde left the grand jury room with attorney David Wells. Fussell's testimony could be interesting. We didn't have much to go on during our investigation, and here's why: His aide threw away all but seven months of his calendars, a violation of state guidelines on document retention. They are supposed to be kept for at least a year. Fussell told us that the mistake was unintentional.
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I thank the Times-Union and Beth for bringing this issue to the public AND now keeping us informed during the process.
The City Council should not be a group that gives even the appearance that they may make deals with each other in a quid pro quo manner. They should each make their own judgements and then debate their individual positions at the City Council public meetings. ANY influence by one member on another should be in an open forum.
I strongly disagree. I think there are many times that the "open forum" politicizes all discussion, and ultimately any opportunity to truly investigate a situation, to strive to learn other's points of view, etc, is completely thwarted when made to occur in public. All debate should be in public, and elected officials should be held accountable for their votes and actions, but these laws are absurd. There wasn't much news going on, so someone had to dig up a story.
I'll call myself anonymous1 - it seems to me you are contradicting yourself. You say "...is completely thwarted when made to occur in public." and then go on to say "All debate should be in public, and elected officials should be held accountable for their votes and actions...."
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