At the end of Wednesday's City Council meeting, when the city clerk bought up a counter resolution submitted by the public, the opportunity arose for soliloquies by both Ce-Ce Gerlach and Joshua Siegel.
Although Gerlach claimed that she was abandoning her notes, it was apparent that many of the phrases were already committed to memory. Gerlach wondered why a city mired in evictions, revenue losses and the pandemic could concern itself with her personal support of BLM. She couldn't understand why a public censure was contemplated, instead of private calls to her by her council colleagues. She wanted to protest publicly, but be reprimanded privately.
Siegel's soliloquy was about the Moment of Moral Reckoning. He spoke of mental health. He spoke in admiration of the speed of the mobilizing, and the new energy of the protesters. When questioned about f.ck the police, he claimed that while raising his clenched fist in solidarity, under his mask he was only saying defund the police.
Siegel's soliloquy was even more rehearsed than Gerlach's. It's almost a tragedy that such a performance is hard to see on the council camera system. Perhaps he can repeat the performance sometime in the future?
It's best to shield oneself from such pompous, puffed up buffoonery as this. meanwhile I have to be sure the Morning Call continues to gush over them just as they did with our felonious mayor. Thanks for enduring both council and the paper for the rest of us Mike, many of us just take any more of either of them.
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