politics

this whole place sucks outside of some parts of downtown phoenix and tempe

Okay so I honestly had trouble parsing this because of all the names. Also here's a link to XCancel which lets you view without going on Twitter

Here's what I learned:

• "Surprise" is the name of a small city, which is in Arizona.
• "Skip Hall" is the city's mayor.
• Mr. Hall had Rebekah Massie physically removed from the council meeting in front of her 10-year-old daughter on the pretense that she violated the rules. More accurately, quoting the yourvalley.net link:

Violating the rules of professional conduct that should govern city council meetings, Mayor Hall interrupted Ms. Massie, told her that she must stop speaking, and threatened to have her escorted out if she wouldn’t yield the floor. He then accused her of “lodg[ing] charges or complaints against [an] employee of the city or members of the body,” displaying his incorrect understanding of that statute and inaccurate assessment of what Ms. Massie was actually doing.

Ms. Massie was not lodging charges or complaints against Mr. Wingo. She was offering her opinion that his salary should not be increased, based on facts that she cited regarding salary comparison data and outstanding Freedom of Information Act requests. She used publicly available facts to support her argument that his salary should not be increased, but she was neither offering her opinion on those facts nor lodging charges or complaints. To state such facts and to urge the council to not increase an employee’s salary is fully within her rights as a citizen.

In conclusion: fuck Skip Hall, fuck the government of Surprise.

Surprisedpikachu, AZ