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TONY ORTEGA
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[Can a piano bar do what Clearwater’s city council hasn’t: stand up to Scientology?]
At a public meeting this week, the Clearwater city council revealed that it was being sued by one of the city’s most notable entertainment attractions.
The Nash Keys, a dueling piano bar, filed its lawsuit against the city last month, after announcing it would do so at a council meeting in June. But Mark Bunker tells us he didn’t hear about it actually being filed until Clearwater’s city attorney mentioned it during the public meeting this week.
We got a copy of the lawsuit, and we knew you’d want to hear what was in it.
Like the petition filed by the Save the Garden movement, the Nash Keys lawsuit is aimed at stopping the city of Clearwater from vacating the public right-of-way of a downtown street so that the Church of Scientology can take possession of it, as part of its L. Ron Hubbard Hall project.
The council voted 3-2 in June to give Scientology what it wanted, but many locals aren’t happy about the city giving up a public street for a private business that invaded the town surreptitiously back in 1975 and has wanted to turn Clearwater into the first “Scientology city” ever since.
After the council’s capitulation, Save the Garden scrambled to gather more than 10,000 signatures of local voters, with enough of them being verified that, according to the city charter, the council is faced with putting the street’s fate on a ballot referendum for voters to decide.
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[/td]At a public meeting this week, the Clearwater city council revealed that it was being sued by one of the city’s most notable entertainment attractions.
The Nash Keys, a dueling piano bar, filed its lawsuit against the city last month, after announcing it would do so at a council meeting in June. But Mark Bunker tells us he didn’t hear about it actually being filed until Clearwater’s city attorney mentioned it during the public meeting this week.
We got a copy of the lawsuit, and we knew you’d want to hear what was in it.
Like the petition filed by the Save the Garden movement, the Nash Keys lawsuit is aimed at stopping the city of Clearwater from vacating the public right-of-way of a downtown street so that the Church of Scientology can take possession of it, as part of its L. Ron Hubbard Hall project.
The council voted 3-2 in June to give Scientology what it wanted, but many locals aren’t happy about the city giving up a public street for a private business that invaded the town surreptitiously back in 1975 and has wanted to turn Clearwater into the first “Scientology city” ever since.
After the council’s capitulation, Save the Garden scrambled to gather more than 10,000 signatures of local voters, with enough of them being verified that, according to the city charter, the council is faced with putting the street’s fate on a ballot referendum for voters to decide.
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Clearwater on the hot seat: Lawsuit and petition aim to stop city’s gift to Scientology
At a public meeting this week, the Clearwater city council revealed that it was being sued by one of the city’s most notable entertainment attractions.
tonyortega.substack.com
