Signature Rant Part 2

The more I think about this signature thing, the more it bothers me.

First, lets clear a few things up. Again, this is aimed at Limon. Lets be real about that. Its designed to try to make her play nice-nice with other members of council. This has nothing to do with the merits of an agenda item and everything to do with just sticking it to Limon.

And trust me, if the rumors I am following up on involving a smear campaign of a high-ranking city official through a reporter are true, then I can see why people are so upset with her. But even if the rumors are true, its still not okay!

Second, stop saying this is about saving time. Having been staff, I can tell you that you know the elected members of a body that go to work every day and those that only show up on meeting days. Anyone who pretends that all the elected officials show up to work every day at city council are full of it. Most do, but certainly not all. So its not like you're killing yourselves with your 4 day work week.

And if you were really interested in saving time, you'd stop with all the damn proclamations that take up the first freakin' hour of a city council meeting. But you guys won't because you all dig the photo op.

Now lets say that David K, who wrote a piece on this today that has some strong arguments, is correct and this is part of an effort to get members of council to stop blind-siding other members of council with issues or lack of back-up materials, then that is a legitimate concern.

It is also a concern that can be fixed without requiring signatures of other members of council. Pass a rule that says No Back-up, No Posting.

Or here's an idea...grow a pair and call out the member of council that does that and say "I move to postpone this item until Representative _______ provides some mutha-luvin' back-up".

Mutha-lovin' is optional. You can leave that part out if you like.

You do that enough times and keep score of how often it happens and poof, you now have something to use at election time against the member in question.

The bottom line here is that this is an elitist policy. If I am her constituent, I get to decide what I like and don't like. I get to decide if I want to fire her. This decision effectively says that people who represent other parts of the city need to give that district's representative their permission to post something on the agenda.

Um...kiss my brown ass!

If I think its okay for my representative to post an agenda item every week that says we should make the #4 combo plate at La Pila on Alameda the official menu of every city function, then dios mio, that is up to me. Not someone who lives in the Northeast!

If I don't like it, I can fire her. But if she's my representative, I get to call the shots thank you very much.

I'm the constituent, is it okay with you all if I decide what I think is best?