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L.A. City Council Adopts Tough Gag Rules

By Patrick Range McDonald, Thursday, Jul. 30 2009 @ 8:30AM
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In a move bound to anger gadflies across Los Angeles, the L.A. City Council has approved tough gagging rules to keep members of an apparently disorderly public from speaking too much of what's on their minds.
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The unanimously approved action came yesterday at an L.A. City Council meeting. Speakers will not be warned of their inappropriate behavior or remarks--whatever "inappropriate" may mean--before they're kicked out of City Council chambers. Once given the heave-ho, a person will also be banned from the chambers for up to 30 council-meeting days.

Sounds like a recipe for self-censorship, thus essentially gagging speakers before they even say anything.

The person who decides what's appropriate or not is the City Council President, who, right now, happens to be Eric Garcetti, a sometime foe of gadfly extraordinaire Zuma Dogg, who's already jumping on the issue.

Zuma Dogg, on his blog yesterday, says the new rules may be illegal, but not just according to him. He cites a ruling from the new City Attorney, Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich -- a favorite of community activist types like former LA Daily News Editor Ron Kaye. They're the kind of people who like to speak up at City Council meetings, sometimes to the annoyance of the politicians sitting before them.

Zuma Dogg has also complained for months that Garcetti has been regularly violating the Brown Act, the law that protects public comment period during City Council meetings. He cites one example here, with an accompanying video.

[Editor's Note: According to Associated Press, the L.A. City Council's action was triggered by a spectator appearing at a meeting dressed in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.]

Contact Patrick Range McDonald at pmcdonald@laweekly.com.

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Zuma Dogg says:

Patrick, Thanks for covering this issue!!! Hate to have to make it about this basic stuff, but I'm here to say it's becoming way too scary in there and We The People lose this right, we lose it ALL!

Posted On: Thursday, Jul. 30 2009 @ 1:49PM
jill says:

Zuma Dogg and the "gadflies" may have written this as puff piece about themselves from their own point of view. Very objective "reporting" not. However you've got Trutanich's role ALL wrong -- why don't you read Zuma's own blog about his sudden flip-flopping on the issue and about Zuma Dogg himeself, now that he's no longer useful to him and a potential liability.

Posted On: Thursday, Jul. 30 2009 @ 3:38PM
marcia says:

jill, that may be old news. Heard that Zuma and Nuch have quietly patched things up, with Nuch's people helping Zuma in the CD2 race to be a thorn in the side of anyone associated with Antonio. Even vaguely, though it's hard to tell who if any are really the "Antonio candidates" since it's as much a liability as a help.

But now that Trutanich is an official he can't openly use Zuma to gather intel and trash his opponents like what he did to Jack Weiss using public comment & Ch. 35 replays for free PR. But all you have to do is listen to him talk about Antonio and "the cockroaches at City Hall" he's going after, and see how he's done it straight out of the bullpen come hell or high water, even if it means showing that he really is as vengeful as his critics said. Judge for yourself.

Posted On: Friday, Jul. 31 2009 @ 2:41PM
S. Lerch says:

This is a start, you Californians will get it first since you have a great state run by ... Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstien and Arnold...Great, I don't think they represent you too well. The Left will impose these state run meetings to further their agenda, regardless of what the majority of the legal population may feel. Keep a watch on this one guys, your state will be first.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 12:58PM
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Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:33PM
William Garcia says:

I completely love this article! absolutely going to have to remember to add this to my blogroll.

Posted On: Wednesday, Dec. 9 2009 @ 10:20PM

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