Pandemic Pettiness

I know, I know, you're waiting for the post-election blog posts. 

Relax - they're coming. Some of them are already written. But today I'm going on a rant because I wanted to address city council about how they are handling the pandemic and about a minute into my comments - which were critical of City Rep Lizarraga and Mayor Margo - there was a "glitch" and I was kicked out of the meeting. 

Fair warning - I drop a few curse words and I was pretty emotional in one part. I don't apologize for that, but I thought I'd warn you so in case you watched it in front of mixed company. 

But seriously, City Reps Lizarraga, Salcido, and Rodriguez are really doing this community a disservice at a time where the stakes are high. I expect it from Rodriguez because she's a Trump supporter and has completely ignored the pandemic from the start - but I expected more out of Lizarraga and Salcido. 

Rather than prevent a solutions-based policy proposal, the trio pushed to get a political score over Svarzbein - who wants the city to do more to stop the virus that is ravaging our community. Whats worse, Lizarraga tried to rope in City Rep Rivera into it by saying she would like to nominate him to be Mayor Pro-Tem. 

Rivera pushed back and said he was not interested. 

And Margo made a terrible comment and needs to apologize. 

Anywho, rather than 3 minutes during public comment - its about 9 minutes.