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Okay, I'm not even IN Paducah, so what's going on over there isn't my business, but the part with which I have issue is the adults acting like squally brats that I see on nearly every Moon video clip.
Parliamentary procedure states that when the floor is open for new business (the agenda), that the motion must be presented by a floor-member, restated by the chair, seconded by another floor-member, then the chair restates the motion and opens the floor for discussion THEN, not for five minutes after the meeting. Also, a side nitpick, when illiterate degenerates say 'Ah Mawshun Thayat' or 'Ah, wawnuh mayk uh mawshun', that's inaccurate. It's "I move that (insert- teehee, yes, I said insert. I made a dick joke). The floor is open for discussion then from *any floor member*, and unless a secondary motion is made to table or limit debate and those hoops are jumped through, it is for damned sure NOT five pissy minutes. The excuses given by a member of "Well, we don't have time for this, I have somewhere to be, I don't want this to drag out" is moot- it's their JOB. For which they were ELECTED. They have to stay there as long as it TAKES to get something done RIGHT.
If it's open to the public, the public has the right to speak however long it wants so long as it isn't in a purely antagonistic or pointless fashion. Filibustering has it's uses, but not so much at a local government level.
As elected officials, my argument isn't what their agenda is- it's how they present it. They're grown, educated, hopefully articulate adults who have volunteered themselves to fill a capacity, and been elected by people on whose behalf the elected official speaks. Most intelligent adults don't have the snarly squabbling matches back and forth at the mic that I've seen out of these small-town, good-ol'-boy meetings. Bring some class back to the gavel, would you?
I don't care how old you are, where you grew up, what your education is, etc. If you are in front of a microphone, on public record, as an elected official, speak with clear diction, be informed, make your information relevant, and be professionally courteous. I'm not saying kiss someone's ass and let them run over you- you're the *chair*, or the chair will IDEALLY protect your rights to speak- the *person* shouldn't *have* to exercise tactlessness to shoot someone else down. A point of order, motion to amend by striking and-or-adding, and so forth, the power-tools of the speaker to whom the floor is currently yielded, should be all one needs. Not an underground online movement to expose the inadequacies of local government's budgeting practices.
That's NOT in ANY WAY to disparage Paducah Moon's efforts. They are to be commended. I'm saying that in an ideal (nonexistent) world, we shouldn't *need* such measures because politicians should be doing their jobs. If they didn't want all this BS, then why sign on? If you want to make Paducah a better place through getting elected, then effin' try to DO it already, instead of yammering over people, insulting them, dismissing them, and otherwise devaluing them *after* accepting their votes.
Again- I'm NOT targeting individuals for their respective platforms. I'm commenting as an outsider without a horse in the race on what my eyes see and my ears hear when I click on a youtube link.
What ever happen to "respect others" and "be considerate"? I agree that a degree of aggression is necessary in such a competitive, fierce field, but I think if people upheld fundamental social etiquette instead of going batshit on it, it'd work out a lot better for everyone- and not make them look quite so much like a bunch of whiny brats.
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