The far western Arizona town of Quartzsite was in disarray Monday after the town council ousted the mayor from power and declared a state of emergency, all over an online video that shows a woman being arrested.
Mayor Ed Foster told The Associated Press on Monday that the town council held a last-minute meeting that was closed to the public Sunday night, declaring a state of emergency in the 3,600-person town just east of the California city of Blythe.
The council’s declaration put police Chief Jeff Gilbert in charge, making Foster the “deputy chief executive of nothing right now,” he said. It also allows the five-member council to meet without public notice and suspend all public comment at the meetings until they declare the state of emergency over.
“I’m going to tell you frankly, this council is out of control,” Foster said. “The chief has been out of control for some time and I’ve asked the state government to help a number of times,” to no avail.
Links to the WaPo article have disappeared. At stake? Lots of money. The town is the snowbird haven for many during the winter and they leave a lot of money behind. Martial law?
h/t TexasFred
July 29, 2011 at 9:36 am
jeebus I linked this over a week ago at Anthony’s.ya’ll need to start adding to the open thread at the Sibyl, just sayin. started with this one: http://thesibylspeaks.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/my-pick-for-2012-open-thread/#comment-5251July 29, 2011 at 11:05 am
Yes, you did, Nom
I mentioned my thanks to you in today’s rant. Want your own page?
July 29, 2011 at 1:36 pm
god no!
July 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Wanted to see whether the msm would pick it up.
July 29, 2011 at 12:34 pm
I don’t think it will get any more play than on the web. sigh
July 29, 2011 at 6:58 pm
me either. even in the non-msm it has not been well covered which is strange considering how many people think the US government will sooner or later declare martial law.
July 29, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I think that the scrubbing of the WaPo is indicative of what should be allowed reading for the masses.
July 29, 2011 at 11:09 am
WTF??!!
This is still America, right?
The Obamafication of Arizona?
I’m giving up….
July 29, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Very nasty taste of what is coming on a grand scale.
July 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Does this mean that we get to go back to the days of public hangings at high noon in the public square?
July 29, 2011 at 1:37 pm
if only. I’m thinking more like clandestine torturings in the gulag.
July 29, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Well, only if can be reality teevee and make lots of money.
July 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I hear there is a big disaster looming August 2. Maybe we’ll all be under martial law. Maybe that’s the plan.
July 29, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Probably rjjrdq.
July 29, 2011 at 8:21 pm
It has been the banksterists plan around the globe for some time; it was inevitable it would reach us as well despite that our nation originated a preponderance of them.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Nato_Destroys_Libya%27s_%2430_Billion_Water_Pipeline/14943/0/38/38/Y/M.html
US-NATO murder civilians, destroy 30 billion dollar water pipeline that supplies 70% of Libyans with water: this is expressly forbidden by the Geneva Conventions to which the US and all other NATO members are signatory. Destroying drinking and irrigation water is ILLEGAL.
http://www.elr.info/articles/vol37/37.10297.pdf
Perhaps we should call the filthy pos masquerading as a legitimate president O’Nebuchadnezzar. Does no one ever learn from history in this nation?
August 1, 2011 at 8:47 am
That interesting article tries to bury the most relevant parts. The mayor was on the side of the lady being arrested in the video. The lady was protesting that they “city council” was violating the open meetings laws.
“Foster described the government and Gilbert as corrupt and abusive of their power, and said all their recent actions are frantic efforts to cover up millions of dollars of money from lining some of their pockets….
“The video shows a woman identified as Jennifer Jones being arrested and hauled away from a council meeting after she said the council was violating open-meetings laws. Jones was speaking during a public comment period, and Foster is heard on the video telling other council members who ordered her removed that “the lady has the floor.”
“She’s exercising her First Amendment rights,” Foster says in the video before telling officers: “You are in violation of my rules of order.”
The officers remove her, anyway, and in the process injure her elbow, which is now in a sling, Foster said….