Although we've been preoccupied all day with real life business, we didn't want the day to slip by without at least mentioning today's Standard-Examiner story, in which it's reported that Emerald City council chairwoman Amy Wicks refuses to meet with His Corrupt Little Mayoral Ass, Boss Godfrey, one-on-one, in private consultations behind closed doors. So irate was the Little Emperor on Nine that Wicks wouldn't obey the imperial command to meet with him "privately," to receive the usual rubber-hose beating that he usually inflicts on people dumb enough to meet with him alone in his 9th floor throne-room, that he wrote a blistering email, and then promptly leaked it to the The Godfrey House Proganda Organ's Ace Reporter Schwebke, who, as per usual, gave the story a disgusting and slavish pro-Godfrey spin.
Our initial impression of Schwebke's "tattletale" story was completely right we think. And here are our first initial objections:
1) It's not right for the highly-abusive Boss Godfrey to insist that ANY woman on the city council meet with the "visionary" Him privately at all. From the last reports we've heard, the last female city councilwoman who tried that, left the meeting in tears. Good for our very classy and alert current council chair in this instance, we think, How many of our gentle readers, we ask, would like their female mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins -- and elected female council reps (nice women like Amy Wicks) -- to meet meet alone alone with the slobberingly aggressive Attack Dog Boss Godfrey in private session?
2) We also believe Councilwoman Wicks was entirely correct when she made her most recent public statement as quoted in today's article. The City Council is Emerald City's independant and co-equal legislative deliberative body. Read what Chairwoman Amy Wicks actually said:
"Wicks also said she prefers to discuss issues with Godfrey during the city council and administration’s joint leadership meetings held twice a month.Right on, Amy! It's about time we had somebody with some "sack" sitting in the Council Chair position, we say. And it's time Boss Godfrey got called on his 8-year pattern of sidetracking independent and legitimate city council deliberations, and arm-twisting Emerald City council people in Boss Godfrey's back room. We certainly got no complaint about that with outgoing council chair Jesse during his two years as Emerald City council Chair, BTW. Let's just say that we consider Council Chair Wicks to be a breath of fresh air.
“The leadership meetings have a set time and agenda,” she said. “The more people you keep in the loop, the better.” 'Wicks also said she prefers to discuss issues with Godfrey during the city council and administration’s joint leadership meetings held twice a month.
“The leadership meetings have a set time and agenda,” she said. “The more people you keep in the loop, the better.”
And what say our gentle readers about all this?
