I spent time today considering what to do about an anonymously published flyer that was put up around town that slandered a member of the City Council.
The flyer started to turn up this morning. Our street and parks maintenance staff found a few of them around town. By the end of the day, City staffmembers had accumulated about ten of the flyers – all removed from public property. Removing the flyers is a standard practice. We have to do this periodically with other privately posted flyers from time to time. It is a violation of our sign ordinance.
What makes this kind of thing so rotten is that it hurts a lot of innocent people. I’ve had it done to me. It hurt my wife and kids very much. I pray that the Councilmember’s family will be saved from major hurt from this incident. It’s a rotten thing to happen to them. They are nice people, and they don’t deserve this.
Maybe the person responsible for the flyer will step forward and engage the Councilmember in an open and honorable discussion about the issue in question.
