The magic of television in Santa Rosa, Ca.

television is such a wonderful tool for the City Council to let the public know what the City Council is doing and what the citizens think of the City Council Polices! But the City Council does not want the Citizens to be heard voicing complaints about the City Council. So in January the new City Council decided that they should move all of the comments about the City to the end of the meeting after all of the business had been transacted to delay any comments during the meeting. And after a couple of weeks of that they found that the citizens were still appearing before the City Council and making the City Council look a little foolish about some things in the Government. Ah, a solution was found! The City Council would not show the citizens speaking to the City Council ! They did that by shutting off the television cameras during the comment period. and shutting off the microphone so the comments could not be heard by the viewing public. If that was not enough a couple of weeks ago they shut off a speaker during the session causing some people to , perhaps, believe that the city council meeting was over. Ah, the honesty and dedication of politicans to the idea of listening to the public is not in question, is it? As they listen, but they don't want the public to know what they are listening to.