With the primary election looming next Tuesday, the first of two May city council meetings moves forward from the customary Monday slot. The Tribune’s Eric Scott Campbell offers this preview:
New Albany City Council looks to have quiet night.
Six New Albany City Council members are campaigning to be nominated in the primary election a week from today. Thursday night’s meeting shouldn’t take too much time out of their schedules.
All the more opportunity for the council's malevolent president to glower at NAC's cameras -- funny, but he has a far more pliable expression when Ms. Bolovschak's newsreels are rolling.
Maybe it's just the lighting. Speaking of scurrying for the dictionaries, don't forget to view yesterday's stellar Steve Price video medley of political malapropisms: Not quite all we need to do.
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Ms. Bolovschak continues to boast that she has personally paid for the videography of city council meetings, but something remains unsaid, at least recently.
Upon my earliest acquaintance with the now-candidate, I extracted a pledge from her. That is a pledge that was given, but not fulfilled.
Not everyone in New Albany has cable TV, so even if the school system (the owner of the cable station) were willing to give up part of its educational programming time to government meetings, many still would not be able to access them.
So I asked Ms. Bolovschak to promise that she would deposit copies of the tapes in the public library. She did promise, but she never came through.
It is the height of Rove-ian politicking to boast about privately taping city council meetings without making those tapes available to the public. Much in the same way that she claims to be on the board of Historic Landmarks (we're members, and we can't find any list that includes her), the claim and the underlying truth are at variance.
Indeed, there is a cost to tape the meetings. But there's a cost to driving a Ferrari (or a golf cart), too. But if that Ferrari isn't being driven for the benefit of the public, it hardly counts as a legitimate campaign selling point.
Voters should know that videotaping of city council meetings would not go "poof" if Ms. Bolovschak were to stop taping. Others stand ready to underwrite those costs, but they are committed to making them publicly available, not to secreting them in a boudoir for private viewing.
Thanks to NAC for the recent efforts to bring visual representation to what this blog has been saying for more than three years now. Yesterday the word "unbelievable" was bandied about in regard to the 3rd District candidate forum/debate. Unfortunately, it is all too believable.
Would that those videos were available to all.
Lost count there for a while, but it's Day 58 of the Steve Price blogwatch. He hasn't posted since March 6th.
Or, judging from his comments at Tuesday's debate, his wife hasn't posted since March 6.
Only the numerologists know for sure. Is there an Anna in the house?
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