Transparency
Council members display their various levels of media savvy at last night’s meeting:
“We are not doing this in private. We’re live on TV; there are BLOGGERS following us; this is out in the open!”
— Chris Easthope
“We’re on TV? I didn’t realize that.”
— Bob Johnson
Of course, this blogger had already tuned out; it took the indefatigable Urban Oasis to stay awake through a heated stormwater runoff debate long enough to hear this hilarious dialogue.
Let me note that the debate was heated, not the stormwater, which would have been a whole other story.
Johnson’s comment was hilarious and came in the middle of discussion of sales of city-owned property.
Good times.
posted by Dale on June 5th, 2007 at 11:09 amNow I want a T-Shirt:
“We’re on TV?”
– Bob Johnson
Of course, only I would find this funny…
posted by Scott T. on June 5th, 2007 at 2:56 pmI actually thought Johnson was making a joke. But then I suppose I was desperately looking for humor at that point.
I did find it comical that Easthope kept coming back to the “we’re on TV” line as a way of proving that the language change was in no way hidden from the public. Interested people had a chance of seeing this, but a live broadcast on public access late Monday evening is not exactly a platform that reaches the masses. To hear him tell it you’d think the discussion came during a break in American Idol.
I guess that’s why we have “the blaaahgers.”
posted by dcwp on June 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmBy way, Washtenaw County, I think I read, now has live webcasts of their meetings? so maybe a certain “”"cool”"” city in Wash County should follow suit, as I have been advising them to do–at their meetings, and on TV–for a looooong time now. . .
posted by David Boyle on June 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pmOddly enough there are some webcasts of some City Council Meetings: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Ann+Arbor+City+Council
posted by Nancy Shore on June 6th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThanks Nancy! Although it should be done more systematically, and done by AACC themselves. . .
posted by David Boyle on June 7th, 2007 at 11:31 amChris Easthope is a lying piece of crap, pig who help drive local artists out of Ann Arbor. Oh and Fuck the YMCA too. Nice use of that old YMCA space you jerks!
posted by Anonymous on June 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pmNow tell us how you really feel . . .
posted by Nick on June 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pmAre you saying that Chris Easthope is overra…..
Never mind.
posted by David Boyle on June 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pmHeard Bobby boy has quit! anyone else hear this?
posted by Julie on June 11th, 2007 at 2:26 amjust not going to run again. Hoping first ward will get some good candidates.
posted by tom on June 25th, 2007 at 3:06 am