Leigh Touchton posted a comment with a report from
last night’s Valdosta City Council meeting:
I won’t stay to the end in the future because if they are going to
make public attacks on citizens and then go into Executive session so
they don’t have to hear a rebuttal, then I don’t care to listen to their
bombast. Yost apparently thinks
your public criticism of the activists not
staying (and also the Tea Party left right after one of their members read
from the Bible about how laws and regulation are a sin–I had difficulty
keeping from laughing out loud—we’re in a recession because laws and
regulation were thrown away and banks made a video called Banks Gone
Wild…but I digress)…apparently Yost thinks your criticism of people
not staying is something he can use to good effect to nullify the need
to publicly address citizen complaints. Here’s his position, distilled:“You won’t stay to the end, I’m offended. You called our important work
boring, I’m offended. (much redness of face, some veins popping out)
You come in here and talk to us like that then I’m not going to address
your complaints, I’m offended.”Well I’m offended that a grown man elected to represent Valdosta acts
like that.Let me go back and educate the gentle readers out there who haven’t