Who will they appoint to the Quartzsite Town Council on Tuesday night? That's the question on everyone's minds now that "Just say - No way Jose" Lizarraga has officially resigned from his council seat to run against "People's Mayor" Ed Foster, in the August recall election.
NEW BUSINESS:
062811 – 1. Discussion and possible acceptance of Council Member Lizarraga’s resignation and discussion regarding filling the vacancy. (Not open for public discussion) Alex Taft, Town Manager
Many are speculating that they will reinstall their favorite puppet, former acting like a mayor "Waffling Wes" Huntley. Huntley is currently a co-defendant in the Jennifer Jones harassment lawsuit against the town council, Police Chief Jeff Gilbert, and Town mismanager Alex Taft. Jones, the publisher of popular newspaper "the Desert Freedom Press" is apparently also running for the mayor's seat.
Some speculate that other possible appointees are political mouthpiece Shanana "Rain" Golden-Bear, Violet Kiss(ass), welfare granny Hygea "half wit" Halfmoon, or dark horse and recent roll over Steve Bennett.
Other items on Tuesday night's agenda are:
062811 – 2. Discussion and possible approval of Resolution No. 11-10; declaring as public record that certain document filed with the Town Clerk and entitled “The 2010-11 Amendments to the Tax Code of the Town of Quartzsite”. (Not open for public discussion)
Karen Norris, Town Clerk
062811 – 3. Discussion and possible approval of Ordinance No. 11-07; adopting “The 2010-11 Amendments to the Tax Code of the Town of Quartzsite” by reference, establishing an effective date; providing for severability and providing penalties for violations. (Open for public discussion)
Karen Norris, Town Clerk
062811 – 4. Discussion and possible appointment of Public Defender for the Town of Quartzsite Magistrate Court. (Not open for public discussion)
Alex Taft, Town Manager
062811 – 5. Discussion and possible appointment of Prosecutor for the Town of Quartzsite Magistrate Court. (Not open for public discussion)
Alex Taft, Town Manager
062811 – 6. Discussion and possible approval to advertise a request for Statement of Qualifications for Professional Engineering and Related Services on a Task Order Basis on Town of Quartzsite Transportation and Public Works projects. (Not open for public discussion).
Al Johnson, Asst. Town Manager
062811 – 7. Discussion and possible censure of the Mayor regarding violation of the Quartzsite Council Procedure Manual by releasing for publication comments not shared by the majority of the Council, and without the knowledge or permission of the Town Manager. (Not open for public discussion).
Joe Winslow, Council Member
After the childish show that council members put on at the June 14th meeting, I wouldn't be surprised to if they were so embarrassed that they all phone in their attendance, to avoid having to look their constituents in the eye.
Who will fill the shoes of the fireman who turned his back on the police? See for yourself. "Come on down! You're the next contestant" on our municipal game show. And now, a word from our sponsors - the tax payers of Quartzsite!
Just say "NO WAY" to Jose! He got us into this mess...brought to you by the my pet goldfish could do a better job committee for election reform.
Despite the four inch thick file La Paz County Prosecutor Sam Vederman would open up on the table at every court proceeding, he has suddenly dismissed all charges without prejudice (meaning they can be brought back up later), citing a lack of evidence to bring the Deena Blythe case to trial.
What has this lengthy investigation cost the taxpayers? Was Sam Vederman's intent to prosecute or persecute the disgraced local Town Council candidate? Is Sam Vederman so incompetent that he's not capable of arguing the case? After all, some lawyers are just glorified paper pushers that don't really like to litigate. Maybe he should have assigned the case to Thomas Jones and Jessica Quicle, the dynamic duo that secured a conviction against Quartzsite pedophile Richard Eugene Aaron in January of this year. (Prior to the debut of this blog.)
At Ms. Blythe's last court date, her attorney mentioned calling failed mayoral candidate Wes Huntley as a witness for the defense. What effect, if any did that make on the case? Inquiring minds want to know Sam!
Perhaps Vederman struck some back room deal to make this high profile problem disappear. What part did Sam Vederman's pal Police Chief Jeff Gilbert play in this soap opera? After all, if the hypothetical "evidence" against Deena Blythe were to include any records of emails, phone calls, and/or text messages between Blythe and Chief Gilbert, this would be a very inconvenient time to have that laid out for public consumption on the court record.
How will this decision aid supporters of his recall? Who will eventually replace him? " Just in may of 2010 Sam Vederman, our elected County Attorney got yet ANOTHER traffic violation. Vederman doesn't know how to carry proper registration amongst other infractions. Please see Public Information J-1504-TR-201002648. If you would like to sign a petition for a recall of Sam Vederman please contact recallsamvederman@yahoo.com "
Hey Deena, we know you're reading, so would you care to comment? How about you Sam?
In response to the small but vocal critics, I really am trying to find warm and fuzzy feel good things to expose here, but frankly, they can go start their own blogs for all I care, because it's only logical that the deeper you dig, the more dirt you are likely to uncover
Regular readers will remember the scandalous Corplan prison proposal that was exposed here on this blog, and how Town leaders quickly changed their tune, pulling support from the project right before the election (hmmm).. After reading.yet another Corpan expose - Private Corporation Building Detention Camps Across America and then watching the new disturbingly credible documentary Camp Fema, I began to wonder what former mayor Wes Huntley, Town mismanager Alex Taft, and Police Chief Jeff Gilbert really knew about Corplan and it's objectives for this community. What did they discuss at that private meeting?
Knowing how close Quartzsite came to paying for this horror will surely keep me awake again tonight.. Discovering evidence of what our leaders have been doing while so many were looking the other way should cause every American to lose sleep,and rightfully so. This subject affects all of us, therefore, I'm providing both the recent article, and the thought provoking documentary. Read, then watch...then think about who may have been housed in the prison that Chief Gilbert so enthusiastically supported. After all, when questioned directly at "Coffee with Cops" Police Chief Gilbert would not deny placing local citizens on the Federal "watch list", and after counting on his fingers and mouthing numerous names to himself, he dodged the question of how many by stating that nobody really wanted to know the answer to the question. Quartzsite did pay to send him to training at FBI headquarters two years ago, after all.
WARNING - OSTRICH ALERT- DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU PREFER TO BURY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND...
ARIZONA Ft. Huachuca - 20 miles from Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales. Rex '84 facility. Pinal County - on the Gila River - WWII Japanese detention camp. May be renovated. Yuma County - Colorado River - Site of former Japanese detention camp (near proving grounds). This site was completely removed in 1990 according to some reports. Phoenix - Federal Prison Satellite Camp. Main federal facility expanded. Florence - WWII prison camp NOW RENOVATED, OPERATIONAL with staff & 400 prisoners, operational capacity of 3,500. Wickenburg - Airport is ready for conversion; total capacity unknown. Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) - Fully staffed and presently holding prisoners!! Sedona - site of possible UN base.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 27, 2010
The shadowy design firm that was behind the infamous Hardin Montana jail is pushing to build detention camps across America, with the latest proposal centering around a fifty acre, five hundred bed facility in Italy, Texas, part of a program that many Americans fear is based around a plan to intern political dissidents in the event of a national emergency.
Private prison development firm Corplan Corrections, headed up by an individual called James Parkey, is working with underwriter Municipal Capitol Markets Group, along with prison “consultant” Richard Reyes from Innovative Government Strategies, an outfit that works with state and local government, to oversee multiple projects concentrated in different states including Arizona and Texas.
Their latest project is focused around constructing a “detention center for illegal immigrants” based in Italy, Texas. The Italy City Council heard Parkey’s proposals last week to build a “gorilla proof facility with a fence,” that would be used as a “processing center”.
The company was also behind the infamous internment facility in Hardin Montana, which attracted national media attention when responsibility for its security was handed to a mysterious paramilitary organization called American Police Force, which was fronted by career criminal and a convicted fraudster Michael Hilton, who operated under no less than 17 different aliases.
The group was also behind controversial plans to build a detention facility on Tohono O’odham Nation land near Sahuarita, Arizona.
Parkey also attempted to convince the Benson City Council to build a detention camp in that part of Arizona earlier this month.
Parkey’s efforts to oversee three separate jail deals with Texas counties failed following insufficient funds being made available to run the facilities, and in 2005, “Three Texas county commissioners were convicted on bribery charges in connection to one of those Parkey-led projects,” reports TPM.
The only stumbling block that Parkey has repeatedly run into when trying to convince local authorities to accept his proposals to build the camps is the lack of prisoners to fill them . Indeed, critics have accused him of fleecing desperate small communities with promises of jobs and economic development that never come to fruition, leaving empty jails and financial black holes.
But should the federal government and Homeland Security activate its “ENDGAME” scenario in response to a declared national emergency, illegal aliens, as well as “potential terrorists” will be rounded up and imprisoned in detention camps that the Feds themselves, not just private companies, have been building over the course of the last decade. Back in January 2006, we reported on how Homeland Security had awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root a $385 million dollar contract to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency.
The language of the preamble to the agreement veils the program with talk of temporary migrant holding centers, as is the case with the Corplan proposals, but it is made clear that the camps will also be used “as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency.”
The stated purpose of the detention camps, to hold illegal aliens, is routinely cited, yet continuity of government plans clearly indicate that the facilities will have a dual purpose – to hold political dissidents and American citizens in the event of a declaration of martial law.
Veteran author Peter Dale Scott characterized the Halliburton contract as another step towards martial law. As Scott points out, the camps will also be used to “support the rapid development of new programs,” which more specifically relates to a longer term Homeland Security operation entitled ENDGAME, which sets its goal as the removal of not only illegal aliens but also “potential terrorists”.
As we have illustrated, in documents like the MIAC report and a plethora of others, federal authorities define American citizens who are even mildly political, own guns, or support third party candidates as potential terrorists.
“The contract calls for a response to “an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs” in the event of other emergencies, such as “a natural disaster.” “New programs” is of course a term with no precise limitation. So, in the current administration, is ENDGAME’s goal of removing “potential terrorists,” writes Scott, adding that former Attorney General John Ashcroft called for the construction of internment camps for American citizens deemed to be “enemy combatants”. Other agencies of the federal government have also been busy trying to build detention camps over the course of the last decade. In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms to construct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster.
In February 2003, Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps.
Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the US where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens and taking them to internment camps.
Whether these detention camps will be bossed by private paramilitary security forces, agents of the federal government, or a combination of the two is largely immaterial. What should concern all Americans is the fact that the camps are being constructed at all and that under new legal arguments being re-applied by President Obama, Americans can be abducted and held without trial in such facilities under the enemy combatant designation.
Now, look at this recent example of how peaceful freedom seeking AZ "sovereigns" are now considered terrorists by the FBI, connected with criminals, and "marginalized" as just described in Camp FEMA..
or just put "potential FEMA internment camps" into your search engine and see what you get. Then think about how issues like state sovereignty will affect your decisions in the upcoming elections.
Alex Taft the fortune teller-Town Manager never saw it coming. But her smug smile faded quickly as it became apparent that control of the regular meeting of the Quartzsite Common Council was beginning to slip from her clutches and back into the rightful hands of the people. Maybe those folks who called her infamous psychic hot line should now ask for a refund.
A standing room only crowd would bear witness as the carefully crafted attempt to neuter our newly elected mayor fell flat. Although Winslow, Anderson, Lukkason and Cowell were eager to amend the Town Code code, Jose Lizzarraga abstained, and Bob Kelley (in failing health) was the only Council Member who voted in opposition to the the obvious conspiracy. One by one, citizens, many of whom never speak at or even attend these meetings, stepped up to the podium to voice their opposition to the evenings agenda.
"Why now?" "What does this mean, I don't understand what you're trying to do?" "Why don't you swear in the new Mayor?" "If you vote for this I can promise you a recall!" were some of the concerns voiced. Taft and company tried to justify the proposals as a necessary reaction to the can of worms opened up by the Steve Bennet swimming pool "emergency", but her argument didn't hold water with the audience.
As the majority voted in favor of the proposed amendments to the Town Code, supporters of Foster remained calm and allowed the Council to show their true colors. They shared a delicious secret...and now that the cat is out of the bag, I will share it with you.
You see dear readers, the Agenda is not official until signed by the "Mayor". A fact that was not lost on our savvy new chief executive officer. I suspect that he may have even winked across the counter at Town Clerk Karen Norris when he picked up the meeting packet earlier that day. She must be relieved that what was surely the worst week at Town Hall is finally over.
With wife Mary seated front row, sore loser Wes Huntley made repeated attempts to silence the crowd. Banging his gavel and ordering the police to remove citizens. After he had motioned to discuss the agenda item to accept the County's election results, Huntley made a pathetic speech, then walked out of the room. As the crowd stood and cheered his departure, leaving Vice Mayor Barbara Cowell to pick up the gavel and call for a vote.
Then finally, the moment everyone had been waiting for; Foster, looking every bit the ex Marine was officially sworn in by doomed magistrate Terry Frausto. (Her recent assumption of dual roles as both magistrate and Town grants administer may violate Article VI, Section 28 of the Arizona Constitution.)
As Ed Foster was seated, someone called out to get rid of Huntley's name placard. A grinning Foster was happy to oblige. Then Foster allowed the people their free expression at "Call to the Public". Many new faces stepped up to the mike to welcome him, and a card was passed around for well wishers to sign before a triumphant Foster closed the meeting.
The informal celebration was at McDonalds, a regular after meeting hang out for incumbents and opposition supporters alike. Stay tuned to see if the "new council" will ever be eating at the same table.
Police Chief Jeff Gilbert, Town Manager Alex Taft, and outgoing "mayor" Wes Huntley just won't accept reality.
Before 10 am, Gilbert was already out of control. Thanks to Councilman Lukkason, his neighbor Russell Sias had already received a warning of potential problems today. (Way to step up Jerry! Congratulations, by the way.) Gilbert was video taped in the parking lot of the post office trying to take out his vengeance against Mike Roth, yet again! Mayor elect Ed Foster arrived on scene quickly to dissipate the tension and send Jeff on his way, with Sias and Jones as potential witnesses for Roth's plausible lawsuit. The rumor this morning is that Jeff and Sondra's ballots cast in Tuesday's election may be under investigation...
When Foster picked up his packet this morning for Tuesday night's Council meeting, he discovered that Huntley and Taft had orchestrated an emergency meeting for 2:30 today. It may have been "posted"somewhere, but it was definitely not posted on the Town website.Among the items hastily placed onto this last minute pre Foster agenda is the final approval of town engineer, and the CDBG grant that Taft's charity is supposed to administrate.
UPDATE: WELL, IT'S MONDAY MORNING AND THE AGENDA FOR TOMORROW NIGHT'S REGULAR MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL HAS YET TO BE POSTED! IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE HUNTLEY/TAFT/GILBERT ALLIANCE WOULD CONTEMPLATE SOME DESPERATE STUNT? HOW LONG CAN THE COUNCIL AVOID THE TRUTH? WILL AN AGENDA BE POSTED BY DAYS END?
EVEN IF ALL OF THEIR PET PROJECTS WERE RUSHED THROUGH THE SPECIAL MEETING, THE CONSENT AGENDA CAN ONLY BE APPROVED AT A REGULAR MEETING. AN AGENDA IS BEING DRAFTED THAT INCLUDES THE SWEARING IN OF FOSTER. MORE UPDATES TO FOLLOW...
THIS JUST IN AT 4PM: TOWN MISMANAGER ALEX TAFT HAS PLACED ITEMS ON TUESDAY NIGHT'S AGENDA DESIGNED AT CHANGING THE MAYOR'S POWERS UNDER THE TOWN CODE! ALSO ON THE AGENDA COURTESY OF TAFT IS A POSSIBLE REVISION TO THE TOWN CODE AFFECTING KAREN NORRIS' POSITION AS TOWN CLERK. SEE YOU AT 7PM TOMORROW!
SO MUCH FOR "WORKING TOGETHER", IT PROMISES TO BE A KNOCK DOWN DRAG OUT THAT MAY NOT END WITH THE SWEARING IN FOLKS. GOOD THING FOSTER HAS LAWYERED UP ALREADY! CAN YOU SAY REFERENDUMS?
According to a telephone call within the hour, WE HAVE A NEW MAYOR!
Ed Foster 338
Wes Huntley 311
The only thing left to do now is for Ed Foster to wash the tea cups and clean house. Alex Taft can chase Jeff Gilbert down some other rabbit hole in the land of Far Far Away. Tell Shrek and Fiona that we said "hello"!
The moral of this bed time story? You can only vote against your constituents so many times, before they get angry and vote against you...
Incumbent councilpersons Anderson, Lukkasson, and Kelley retain their seats by a narrow margin.
322 Lukkasson 317 Anderson 315 Kelly 309 Hamilton 308 Sias 254 Moore
After mayoral candidate Ed Foster photographed Corplan execs being courted by our police chief while the "mayor" and members of the Council tried to sneak out the back door of Town Hall, it seems that Huntley's had a change of heart about the proposed prison that HE placed on the agenda for discussion last month...See:
http://quartzsitearizona.blogspot.com/2010/03/mayor-huntley-prefers-felons-to-snow.html
It seems that "Waffling Wes" has finally realized that it's not a wise campaign strategy to support such a questionable endeavor with his center stage seat hanging by a thread. In another grammatically challenged advertorial published by the Desert Messenger on Wednesday, Huntley proclaimed "there will be no prison in our Town as long as I can be active for you, our honorable citizens." (As if to imply that there would be one when voters deactivate him on May 18th.) But reform candidates and "dissidents" as the waffler likes to call them occupied virtually all of the seats to voice their concerns and opposition at the "mayor's" special Corplan public meeting.
Then Huntley tried to save face by shifting the blame for the secret March 24th meeting between current leadership and Corplan's James Parkey to the Town mismanager Alext Taft. Sorry Wes, we don't believe you didn't know..
And Wes, I know you're reading, so remember...THE REAL STORY ABOUT CORPLAN WAS PUBLISHED HERE FIRST! So naturally, now Huntley wants to assume all the credit for someone elses efforts, suddenly claiming "boy, there were some red flags all over". Note to readers, ANYTHING Huntley puts on the agenda should throw up red flags all over town!
AT THE TUESDAY NIGHT REGULAR MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL, POLICE CHIEF JEFF GILBERT WAS GIVEN UNLIMITED TIME TO SELF AGGRANDIZE, AS FORMALLY SCHEDULED IN THE MARCH 23rd OFFICIAL AGENDA.
HE MUST HAVE BROUGHT HIS OWN CHEERING SECTION BECAUSE WHEN GILBERT FINISHED HIS LENGTHY DISSERTATION, SEVERAL OF THEM STOOD ALONG WITH "MAYOR" HUNTLEY AND CHEERED. THEN "EL JEFE'S" FAN CLUB LEFT THE MEETING BEFORE ANY REAL BUSINESS ON THE AGENDA WAS DISCUSSED.
AFTER REPORTING RECENT ARREST STATISTICS AND SUCH, CHIEF GILBERT LAUNCHED HIMSELF INTO A MONOLOGUE THAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS THE DESPERATE ACT OF A TRULY DESPERATE MAN...
WORD FOR WORD, HE RECOUNTED THE RECENT COMPLAINTS FILES AGAINST HIM WITH AZPOST! (ARIZONA POLICE OFFICERS STANDARDS AND TRAINING BOARD) APPARENTLY UNAWARE THAT VIDEO WAS RECORDING THE ENTIRE EPISODE, GILBERT FIRST PUBLICLY SLANDERED AND DEFAMED MAYORAL CANDIDATE ED FOSTER, THEN COUNCIL CANDIDATE BILL MOORE.!
CHIEF GILBERT INSISTED THAT FOSTER'S COMPLAINT OF USING HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTION WAS "UNFOUNDED", YET THAT WAS PRECISELY WHAT GILBERT WAS DOING ONCE AGAIN...THEN, WHEN HE RECOUNTED MOORE'S COMPLAINT THAT PROBLEMS BEGAN WITH "THE WARRANT LESS SEARCH" OF THE RESIDENCE OF A LOCAL PET GROOMER, CHIEF GILBERT TURNED TO THE AUDIENCE AND POINTED TO THE VICTIM SEATED IN THE FRONT ROW, IDENTIFYING HER BY NAME (AS IF TO INTENTIONALLY INCITE SOME KIND OF PUBLIC RETRIBUTION FOR THE COMPLAINTS).
WHEN THE WOMAN SPOKE UP TO AFFIRM CANDIDATE MOORE'S ALLEGATION THAT THE INCIDENT REALLY HAPPENED, "MAYOR" HUNTLEY WENT COMPLETELY BERSERK. ( IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE TAKING SOME KIND OF MEDICATION TO PREVENT THAT?) THE VEINS WERE POPPING OUT IN HUNTLEY'S REDDENED FACE AS HE POUNDED HIS GAVEL AND REPEATEDLY SCREAMED "GET HER OUT OF HERE!"
(SEE HUNTLEY THROW OUT MIKE ROTH IN A SIMILAR, THOUGH LESS DRAMATIC TANTRUM HERE:)
http://www.youtube.com/user/qnewseditor#p/u/0/zxFwgxLOTcQ
A STUNNED SILENCE FELL OVER THE ROOM AS SERGEANT WILL PONCE ESCORTED THE BUSINESSWOMAN OUT OF THE MEETING. AS SHE LEFT THE ROOM, SHE TURNED TO THE CROWD AND INSISTED "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. THE DEPARTMENT DID ENTER A WARRANT LESS SEARCH. THEY WERE NOT REPRIMANDED. FORMAL COMPLAINTS WERE FILED. THE CHIEF DID NOTHING ABOUT IT..." AND FURTHER, THAT THE FACTS COULD BE PROVEN BY VIDEO, DOCUMENTS, DISPATCH AUDIO AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
COUNCILMAN LUKASSON SMIRKED, TOWN ATTORNEY WALSAMA GRINNED, THEN WITHOUT MS.HARRIS IN THE ROOM TO DEFEND HERSELF,THE CHIEF READ HER COMPLAINT AGAINST HIM, WHICH HE CLAIMED INCLUDED PHOTOS BUT GILBERT CONVENIENTLY CHOSE NOT TO SHOW THEM. HE ALLEGED THEY WERE "NOT OF VERY GOOD QUALITY" AND "THEY REALLY DON'T SHOW A LOT". DID THEY ACTUALLY SHOW SOMETHING THE CHIEF DID NOT WANT VIEWED?
GILBERT FINISHED OFF HIS TIRADE BY THREATENING "I WILL SEEK PROSECUTION FOR FALSE REPORTING" AGAINST THE COMPLAINANTS, BUT AS OF THIS DATE NONE HAVE BEEN SERVED WITH A COURT SUMMONS OR EVEN INTERVIEWED "BY AN OUTSIDE AGENCY" REGARDING THE MATTER.
THE POLICE CHIEF'S DIRECT SUPERVISOR, TOWN MANAGER ALEX TAFT THEN ASSURED THE CROWD THAT THE COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND WERE DETERMINED TO BE "UNFOUNDED" AFTER BEING THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED (BY WHOM - GILBERT?). TAFT STATED: I FIND NOTHING TO MERIT FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT OR CHIEF GILBERT. I FIND NO CAUSE OF INAPPROPRIATE ACTION ON HIS PART OR THAT OF THE OFFICERS UNDER HIS COMMAND."
TOWN ATTORNEY PAM WALSMA OF THE YUMA LAW FIRM, SHADLE $ WALSMA, PLC
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/85365-az-pamela-walsma-398188.html
MADE NO ATTEMPT TO STOP GILBERT FROM COMMITTING PROFESSIONAL SUICIDE. WHY? IN FACT, SHE APPEARED QUITE PLEASED, WHICH BRINGS UP SOME OTHER INTERESTING THOUGHTS...
DID THE POLICE CHIEF COME TO THE DECISION OF AIRING HIS DIRTY LAUNDRY ALL ON HIS OWN? WAS LEGAL ADVISE PROVIDED FOR HIM BY THE TOWN FIRST? DID THE COUNCIL KNOW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO? DID THEY APPROVE? BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, DID THEY KNOWINGLY TRICK HIM INTO MAKING THIS BLUNDER SO AS TO SACRIFICE HIM LATER AND THEREBY ATTEMPT TO RESTORE CREDIBILITY BEFORE THE ELECTION???