From the Granite Grok
Don’t Believe Everything You Hear From Town Council
BY JONATHAN ESPOSITO / 24 DECEMBER 2023
I heard a rather shocking pronouncement from Town Council Chairman John Farrell at the 12/18/23 public meeting. “Don’t believe everything you read in the paper,” Farrell says, “because it’s all one-sided.”
I did not attend this session of the council, as my children are Elementary aged, and we enjoyed the showing of the Polar Express with the North School Community. Rather, I listened at home, and boy am I glad I did, as I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that statement.
It is ironic that he chose the term “one-sided” as that is actually the most appropriate way to describe the manipulated information flow that proceeds from the Town Council and many of our malfeasant elected and appointed officials.
“One-sided” would be citizens emailing the Town Manager and Town Council and not getting a response from their elected officials to the majority of inquiries and communications they send off.
“One-sided” would be a Town Manager and Town Council that consistently have failed to produce information and documents upon simple citizen request, forcing citizen’s to file right-to-know requests to compel the town to release information that should be readily available to the public, but apparently have to be redacted to cover Town wrongdoing.
“One sided” would be giving a citizen 3-5 minutes at public comment to speak, and then Councilman Jim Butler spending the next 20 minutes personally attacking that citizen for asking too many questions. Ironically enough, “one-sided” is exactly what Councilman Butler promised to be when he said he would like to control the narrative during a July Public Meeting of the Town Council.
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