by Travis Mateer
I’m trying to assess which part of my public comment was the most offensive. Was it calling our local media terrible a half dozen times? Or was it failing to address our new Mayor, or her Regent, when I finally got myself unmuted and was able to speak via my phone? Or maybe it was inquiring about whether or not our City Council uses “Indian Time” when they don’t want to interrupt certain commenters who go on and on and on?
Indian time is an actual phenomenon, if you’re not aware, and this is one way of defining it:
A notional /cultural system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Indians (Native American Culture), and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often very early or very tardy.
If I went over my 3 minutes (I didn’t) too fucking bad, because enduring all the comments bitching and moaning about the camping ban was VERY triggering. Now it seems our local homeless complainers want to complain about multiples shelters, and the beds in those shelters, NOT being enough. Ok, so what is this Missoula community supposed to do about it? Isn’t MRA dropping a couple hundred thousand dollars on a expansing the Johnson Street bathroom infrastructure?
Here’s my comment, for what it’s worth (probably not much):
The candidate who had a chance to become a member of the City Council “horseshoe” last night also commented, and it was pathetic. Thankfully our elected Council members decided a coin flip wasn’t an adequate method for determining who will represent Ward 6, and made the choice themselves to stick with Sandra Vasecka. From the link:
Sandra Vasecka finally prevailed over Sean McCoy in the finale of a convoluted, weeks-long process to select the Missoula City Council Ward 6 representative Monday night.
Votes were 7-5 in favor of Vasecka Monday night, as the current council took up the selection process following a tie in the general election. The tie only emerged after a recount, which Vasecka requested when she appeared to come up short by just five votes to McCoy.
“I think this is an important decision in front of us,” said Council President and Ward 3 Representative Gwen Jones. “Our America is becoming a highly partisan, polarized place.”
Jones, along with Vasecka, Mike Nugent, Heidi West, John Contos, Jennifer Savage and Stacie Anderson went for Vasecka. Meanwhile, Sierra Farmer, Amber Sherrill, Kristen Jordan, Mirtha Becerra and Daniel Carlino backed McCoy. Nugent changed his vote from McCoy to Vasecka in the fourth round of voting Monday.
In my comment I mentioned crime statistics going down. Are they? I don’t doubt that they are, but I’ll be examining WHY I think crime statistics are going down, and it’s NOT because there are less crimes being committed.
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