Friday, March 20, 2009

Open thread: City council meeting of Thursday, March 19.

"Live" blogging (see previous posts from Thursday night) may not be the best idea given my deficiencies at typing and a vague proclivity to editorialize along the way, but it's been fun attempting it during the two March council meetings.

There was substance for discussion last evening, including:

CM Benedetti's ongoing inability to fathom the broader context of conflict of interest.

CM Gahan's mastery of procedure in dispensing with The Gary for the (fourth?) time in a year.

CM Zurschmiede's unexpected, scenery-chewing "clean up NA" and subsequent pro-development posturing before an audience than included fellow Republican and Commissioner Mark Seabrook.

The council's persistent absence of intellectual curiosity when it comes to the implications of ROCK's crusade against pornography (freedom of expression, anyone?).

CM Price's quasi-Freudian basement water fetish.

What we might learn from the organizational flair displayed by the Lafayette Drive neighbors (who live in New Albany) and ROCK (most of whom don't).

If you were there and care to comment, please do. If not, and you're out enjoying the day or watching the NCAA basketball games, that's fine, too.

5 comments:

The New Albanian said...

I forgot: During her defiant defense of voting on matters pertaining to her brother, Mrs. Benedetti made a couple of assertions:

She has done her research and comes well prepared on all council business.

She does not use e-mail because she is a people person who wants folks to call, not write.

I do not report these assertions as straight lines, although they are. Bud Abbott, where have you gone?

After wards, she came over to me and said, "I didn't even know you had a blog."

Yep.

Matt Nash said...

What's a blog?

Iamhoosier said...

Guess she forgot about telling several of us(Roger included)that we had no right to be critical of the council on the blog(s) because we had never run for office. And, of course, it's just coincidence that her lack of an email address was mentioned here recently.

Yep, indeed.

B.W. Smith said...

She's not representing her district well. Plain and simple.

Larry M. Summers said...

I think Kevin Zurschmeide's sudden vocalness in regards to cleaning up New Albany and the pro-growth rhetoric come from the fact that he attende the Newport presentation a couple weeks ago.

I thought that the presentation brought to light some interesting ideas and Kevin wants to see them come to fruition.

This, of course, is just my assertion of why I think he is doing what he is.