[Pictured: The glasses are off now, y'all! Good luck come November & March.]Zuma Dogg has been going to the Los Angeles City Council meetings since April 4, 2006 and it's always a comedy of errors with the City and the way they handle things from as soon as you walk in the door of City Hall till your final minute of public comment time expires.
Now, a lot has been done to work the kinks out over the past two years, especially with the police at the front door who greet ZD each day. (I mean at the beginning, they were telling ZD and Matt Dowd that we couldn't even bring cameras inside. Then they said we couldn't use them.)
And on Council's side, they know now they can't get away with a lot of the stuff that used to go un-checked. But I could still spend all my time and effort fighting over the first amendment/Brown Act stuff, everyday...and would never have time for actual city issues (so I would be the First Amendment guy, instead of "overall issue guy".)
So generally, I just bob and weave through the nuttiness...and overall...no matter how much they try and de-rail ZD and other people's public comments with their un-necessary and illegal interruptions, overall -- ZD feels he gets his message out there, the people are responding -- so you score your points and move on. (If a referee called everything that would trigger a foul in a basketball game, you would never get past the first tip-off.
SO WITH THAT SAID...ZD FEELS LIKE THE CITY IS INCREASINGLY DESPERATE IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO DE-RAIL PUBLIC COMMENT SPEAKERS BY INTERRUPTING THEM WHEN THEY SHOULD NOT BE INTERRUPTED. (Aka: Way too much subjective crybaby opinions being injected during people's public comment time.)
AND WITH THAT, I GIVE YOU THIS (Click here for full story)!
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