[Vision2020] And the evidence for this is...

[Tom Hansen]

That's strange, Mr. Eiselein.

Before I started submitting publc records requests for videos of various
city council and/or committee sessions, I personally video-taped portions
of sessions after personally obtaining permission from Mayor Chaney.  Her
only request was that I do not disrupt the session(s), which I did not. 
In some cases did not videotape.  I merely shot a few photos and
audio-recorded portions of the session(s)

Now, the Latah County Board of Equalization, back in 2004/2005, that's a
different story.  I was all over that like Steven Sitler at a Cub Scout
camp.

One other thing, Kai:  The Moscow City Council DID NOT meet on July 20,
2007.  They met on July 16th.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

>
> May, 7, 2007
>
> Mayor Nancy Chaney ordered a journalist, namely me, to stop taking
> photographs during a city council meeting.
>
> In an email exchange later, after I sent her the AG's opinion, she stated
> that my photographing the speakers was "disruptive" and "intimidating".
>
> Nevermind the fact that I was sitting in a chair, using no flash, per the
> council's rules, and was not firing continuously. In fact I took a grand
> total of two photos.
>
> I voiced my displeasure with the mayor publicly in the August 16, 2007
> issue of the Latah Eagle.
>
>
>
> July 20, 2007
>
> While Greg Meyer from KLEW was setting up his equipment shortly before the
> council meeting, Mayor Nancy Chaney approached him and asked him not to
> film anyone who was speaking because it was "intimidating".
>
> Ironically, just minutes before, I had half-jokingly warned him that the
> mayor thought cameras were "intimidating". She stated that "We've been
> through this before", while looking at me, sitting a couple of feet away.
> He thought I off my rocker, then the mayor made her statement.
>
> Meyer said he had NEVER had an elected official try to tell him not to
> film.
>
> This mayor is unfit for office, she has no grasp of the Constitution and
> continues to act as though the First Amendment does not apply in her
> chambers.
>
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