If you haven’y yet read the partial transcript of Bob Filner tossing Andrew Jones out of a closed session San Diego City Council meeting last week, here ’tis…
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kfmb/misc/cityfight.pdf
Thanks to KFMB, CBS Channel 8. Here is the TV station’s related story from Friday.
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http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/jun/23/he-chalks-the-line-city-attorney-prosecutes-man-fo/#comments
Update: On June 20, Bob Filner sent a memo to Council President Todd Gloria and Jan Goldsmith asking Gloria to docket the item for the next closed session meeting. The memo reads:
“This young man is being persecuted for thirteen counts of vandalism stemming from an expression of political protest that involved washable children’s chalk on a City sidewalk. It is alleged that he has no previous criminal record. If these assertions are correct, I believe this is a misuse and waste of taxpayer money. It could also be characterized as an abuse of power that infringes on First Amendment particularly when it is arbitrarily applied to some, but not all, similar speech.”
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