Censorship? The State Attorney General doesn’t think so!
Santa Ana Mayoral wannabe Alfredo Amezcua announced on Facebook this week that he had just appointed his photographer and mime, Ruben Alvarez to serve as his Campaign Field Operations Director. If Alvarez was the one who cooked up Amezcua’s latest fake scandal – accusing the Santa Ana City Council of censorship when they unanimously voted to turn off Albert Castillo’s microphone a couple weeks ago, then perhaps Amezcua should fire Alvarez instead of promoting him.
I say that in the wake of today’s news that the California Attorney General’s Office has found no reason to take legal action against Santa Ana council, according to the O.C. Register.
That’s right – the entire faux scandal was B.S.!
City rules “appropriately” require speakers to limit their comments to matters within the City Council’s jurisdiction, Senior Assistant Attorney General Gary W. Schons wrote this week in response to a formal complaint about the incident.
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I agree with the last point of the blog post BUT I do wish that we could be more “British House of Commons” in our local, state and national politics. What homeboy said on the microphone…hey, that’s just a critique. If we cut the mics on that kind of stuff, city clowncil meetings deserve to be the low attended, snoozefests that they are…