LA City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson, whose city has a $1 billion budget deficit; scandal everywhere from the LAFD and LAPD to the LADWP and now Parking Enforcement, wants to “crack down” on the 1st Amendment. Specifically, MHD is targeting the crazies at City Council meetings who, to many, are corruption canaries in the coal mine.
I wrote about this just a few days ago: "Marqueece Harris-Dawson Picks First Amendment Fight He Has Zero Chance of Winning" by Daniel Guss
Wait, why isn’t MHD prioritizing the (latest) racism scandal at the LAPD first???
Low-hanging fruit?
Or does he not believe that the intensive racism at the LAPD should be a top priority?
Harris-Dawson is guaranteed to lose in court if he enacts his word-ban and penalizes anyone for saying them. He is also making several huge mistakes in the way his self-defeating motion is worded. And the City of Los Angeles has already lost this argument in the past and had to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
All the lawyers will need to do in the lawsuit that MHD is inviting is read the prior rulings.
Easy money.
But okay, have at it.
Watch as gadflies, and perhaps many others, line-up in City Council for their share of the future settlement pie.
And that is what I’ll be talking about today at 2:30pm on “The John Kobylt Show” on KFI-AM 640. Like this column, John calls the balls and strikes on the issues with clarity and purpose Monday thru Friday from 1pm to 4pm.
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