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DEL.ICIO.USReading other people’s mail: Lisa Borders warns against cheap shots at Shirley Franklin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Lisa Borders, president of the Atlanta City Council, has sent out a letter to her colleagues, urging them to behave themselves when Mayor Shirley Franklin’s people show up to talk about an out-of-whack budget.
Read the entire letter here, but this is the best part:
”We must ask tough questions, but we have the higher obligation to do so with decorum, civility and respect. The City Council sits as the representatives of our constituents, and we do them no service when we replace thoughtful inquiry with hostility or probing analysis with ad hominem attack. We owe our citizens more.
“As the President of the Atlanta City Council, I am responsible for preserving order and maintaining control of the Council chambers and offices. I hold this mandate with honor. Today and in the coming days, I call upon each of us to conduct ourselves with the dignity befitting our posts. We have invited the members of the Executive Branch to come before us and present their budgets. As guests in our chambers, we are honor-bound to show them the due respect owed to colleagues in the public’s service. Any less is unconscionable.”
Comments
By Lady J
May 27, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
LISA BORDERS ROCK!!! A classy lady!
By BillW
May 27, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Atlanta needs to get rid of 4,000 employees, not just 400. They will then have the same number of employees per 1000 population as Charlotte - which is a typical city in regard to number of public employees per 1000 population.
By Last Verse same as the First
May 28, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Translation: I will do everything in my power legal and otherwise to harass those who have the temerity to point out the ineffectual nature of our current mayor and her lack of any substantive and coherent policy. Those who refuse to submit now will face further retribution when I am installed as the next mayor.