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TONY ORTEGA
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There was a lot to take in, watching Thursday night’s Clearwater city council meeting, and we did our best to describe the scene in yesterday’s post.
It was shocking, frankly, to see the genuine hard work of thousands of local citizens disregarded by the three members of the council — David Allbritton, Ryan Cotton, and Mike Mannino — who voted to uphold their decision to give a downtown street to the Church of Scientology that the church really doesn’t need for its L. Ron Hubbard Hall project.
There was so much going on, we didn’t mention that this was the first city council meeting in the new City Hall. It was a building that former city council member Mark Bunker had helped make a reality, and he was there again Thursday night, just two days after his electoral defeat, to speak to the dais as a private citizen.
He saw our post yesterday, and saw that we were rather astonished at the performance by Allbritton, who accused the Save the Garden movement of lying about its real motivations, and of financial corruption.
He wanted us to know what it was like to hear those accusations in the room.
First, take a look at what Bunker said, again trying to convince this city’s leadership that it doesn’t have to be such an enabler for Scientology…
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It was shocking, frankly, to see the genuine hard work of thousands of local citizens disregarded by the three members of the council — David Allbritton, Ryan Cotton, and Mike Mannino — who voted to uphold their decision to give a downtown street to the Church of Scientology that the church really doesn’t need for its L. Ron Hubbard Hall project.
There was so much going on, we didn’t mention that this was the first city council meeting in the new City Hall. It was a building that former city council member Mark Bunker had helped make a reality, and he was there again Thursday night, just two days after his electoral defeat, to speak to the dais as a private citizen.
He saw our post yesterday, and saw that we were rather astonished at the performance by Allbritton, who accused the Save the Garden movement of lying about its real motivations, and of financial corruption.
He wanted us to know what it was like to hear those accusations in the room.
First, take a look at what Bunker said, again trying to convince this city’s leadership that it doesn’t have to be such an enabler for Scientology…
READ MORE
Mark Bunker on watching Clearwater’s council attack Save the Garden for Scientology
There was a lot to take in, watching Thursday night’s Clearwater city council meeting, and we did our best to describe the scene in yesterday’s post.
tonyortega.substack.com