Recall the last half year or so when Stocks and Gaspar have used insistence on "rules and processes" to deny people, to attack people and to try to hand the mayoral position to Gaspar in a process-breaking manner? The ongoing hypocrisy of it is increasingly exaggerated as Stocks plays around with Roberts Rules, council policies and social rules of civility most every meeting.
To go back to the meeting as it unfolded, after Oral Communications Stocks leaped ahead to say he had removed the agenda item regarding Peder Norby's contract and he is going to appoint a subcommittee.
Whoa! not so fast there, buddy. The minions rebel. Good Times. Public speaker Lisa Shaffer correction of minutes, consent item #1, is simple and straightforward. But the bully in him takes over and it gets worse. It's like he just can't stop himself even as he makes things up. Must suck to be him. Even his deliberate mispronunciation of her name is loaded with venom. Oh yes, totally a lie about what has been done for some years now. Here are just a few examples from 2011 randomly selected after checking back more than a year. People do have their name and a brief statement of their topic. Well, of course they do because oral communications is where a topic not on an agenda is introduced. His action minutes rationale makes no sense, as Teresa Barth (more politely) points out.
Rarely do we see the council majority so out of step with Stocks. Kristin Gaspar's face was priceless.
"You're not the boss of me," she seemed to be saying.
