Such basic rules of order have been long overdue. If the city's business can be held up interminably for an individual's exercise in first amendment rights then the rest of city is penalized. It's a rare but clear case of zero-sum collective rights where a limit on one's rights must be put in place so that others' rights won't suffer. and/or: you must first be elected in order to filibuster.

Whatever happened to his buddy Sam Bellomio and his firecracker sidekick Mia Jacobson? Her bio on the StandUP-America site says "she is currently developing an anthology of essays describing the relationship between differences and similarity within the human condition", which sounds like a book we all want to read, I'm sure. These people don't have sixty points of IQ between them. Disrupting the council serves no function, not even for "Black Lives Matter".

Here in the Great Lakes watershed we'd just throw a chair at them, unless it's the Mayor's office in which case a coffee pot will do.

The problem is that the people who really have nothing to say think they need to be provocative. Alex actually has a good basic point (accountability) but it's been said over and over, by much more eloquent and intelligent people, so he relies on histrionics and cheap shots.

The public comment period of any council activity is fascinating. There are good thoughtful comments occasionally, but most of it is just crazy.

Alex Tsimerman is a declared City Council candidate who has made phone calls to all other candidates, I've heard. When is The Stranger going to run an interview with him?

Also, I look forward to the upcoming Tim Burgess versus Alex Tsimerman debates. They will make the Vidal Buckley debates pale in comparison.

I am really going to miss Nick Licata. More Councilmembers like Nick are needed with the skill to reign in the overreach of Councilmembers like Tim Burgess and others.

This legislation seems to me like a solution searching for a problem. Tsimmerman's rants are provocative and might be even more so if I could understand him. A SLOG interview would be helpful to inform us of just what his message is.

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I too was wondering what happened to the cute one. Good to know she's hard at work on that anthology. Envisioning a skim of it makes me happy.