Maggie Houlihan died and her husband, her friends and artists wanted to commemorate her. A simple loving thing that Mayor Stocks and his cronies found reasons to disallow. It took husband Ian Thompson, the Coastal Law Group and the ACLU to threaten a law suit for the majority to respond. Teresa Barth pushed for an immediate special council meeting and Stocks did not comply by the deadline Thompson demanded, April 6. Stocks was quoted as saying there
wasn't a quorum so the meeting was postponed until last night.
Last night, at a 4:30 closed meeting with public speakers allowed before hand, Thompson and Livia Borak of Coastal Law Group spoke along with friends and community members. Here are several clips from this meeting, where the council majority (except for Kristin Gaspar) ultimately backed down and voted to let the stickers covering Maggie's face come off - under the threat of litigation (and cancelled the closed meeting portion).
These are a few of the choicest contributions by Maggie's friends and fans.
