Are folks in need of a little more oxygen around here?
In Missoula, a former city council member is comparing Obama to Hitler, and a citizen wants only people who own property to vote on the proposal about secondary dwellings, ADUs*.
Yesterday at a committee meeting, Dennis Gordon quizzed Councilman Jason Wiener about his status as a renter, and Gordon suggested only people who own property should be allowed to vote on the ADU proposal.
Yes. Really.
I wasn’t covering the ADU item of the day – public outreach – but it seemed like something folks in Tweet land would be interested to hear.
KeilaSzpaller11:49am via Twitter for iPhone
If you don’t own property, you shouldn’t have a vote, per public comment at a council committee meeting about ADU outreach.
Responses?
@Jedzilla 11:53am via TweetDeck: “Landed Gentry” concerning votes and ADUs
@mollypriddy 12:04pm via Web: Pretty sure that’s how they controlled women and minorities back in the day.
Councilman Bob Jaffe had a few choice words, too, for the idea you don’t have a say if you don’t own land.
@KeilaSzpaller11:56am via Twitter for iPhone
“Abhorrent to the Constitution.” Councilman Bob Jaffe said city attorney used that phrase to describe limiting votes to property owners.
*(ADU = Accessory Dwelling Unit. Backyard cottage, granny suite, basement or garage apartment.)
Then today, I got this email from Renee Mitchell, who was a councilwoman for one term. In it, she compares U.S. President Barack Obama to dictator and murderer Adolph Hitler of Nazi Germany. (Thank you, copy chief Justin Grigg, @jjgrigg, for the PDF, JPG.)
“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!”
~Adolph Hitler, 1935,
on The Weapons Act of Nazi Germany
According to a scholar in this story on Salon.com, the quote Mitchell uses there is “probably a fraud” and “suffers from severe credibility problems.” (Thank you, Cory Walsh, @walshc, for the link. Too many titles to put here.)
Missoula? Not. Good. Juju.
- Keila Szpaller
