Listen up Mr. Mayor
This is a second update to an earlier article.
This poll question at the TimesCall:
The Longmont City Council offers two “public invited to heard” sessions during each regular meeting — one near the beginning of the meeting and one at the end. Mayor Bryan Baum would like to see the first public-invited segment to be limited to no more than 30 minutes. Speakers already are limited to three minutes each. Should the first public-invited session be limited, and if so, how much time should be allotted?
Looks like the Times-Call finally closed the Limits to Public Invited To Be Heard poll.
Here’s the final results:
(click to enlarge images)
Final tally: 500 votes (not bad based on other polls)
Ratio of ‘No Limits’ to the (obviously hoped-for) 30-minute limit?
3:1 – ouch
I do believe that’s a very, Very, VERY clear statement that the public disagrees with the Mayor about limiting free speech. (and his effort to ‘walk it back’ fooled no one)
So maybe our glorious new mayor should think before he voices his inner thoughts about the public’s right to free speech and ‘stewardship’ since it’s pretty clear he doesn’t have much of a clue about either of them.
Here’s the previous poll results:
Here’s how the voting looked two days ago:
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Now it’s late in the day sunday Jan 31 and more folks have expressed their opinion:
The number of total votes has gone up from
262 to 376 (over 40% more votes)
114 more citizens spoke up (which is great to see)
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The opposition to limiting Public Invited To Be Heard to a 30 minute limit compared to no limit has grown from 3:1 to 3.2:1 (look at the charts and you can see the jump:
Samples from 1/29 and 1/31 – note the increase in scale on the charts (click images to enlarge)
I think it’s pretty obvious, even from this admittedly-nonscientific poll, that the people who are paying attention really don’t agree with the idea of limiting Public Invited To Be Heard and suggestions to that effect are not welcome by the public. Any ‘good steward’ of government should be able to see this. I hope this analysis has helped provide more clarity.
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