In reality, this demonstrated that if we are not apathetic, even with a democrat-leaning city council, the “system” can work. Like them or not, the council voted on a common sense amendment and effectively ended the nonsensical prior ordinance. Several local media outlets reported that the only public input was against the original, un-amended law.
That’s impressive because conservatives are difficult to mobilize, because they have jobs and families and volunteer commitments at church or coaching their kids’ sports teams, etc. Liberals by comparison are usually pot smoking homeless bums — or as near as makes no difference — and have all the time in the world to do political stuff like camp out on centennial mall playing the banjo as part of the Occupy Wall Street thing or whatever it was they were doing.
If they try to introduce another ordinance anytime soon, I think it will be time for me to go on the offensive again with all of the facts about how the previous mayor’s “safe storage task force” was a ruse, and a kangaroo court of the former public safety director’s friends and family. This included the same student / family member who was later the subject of a statewide Amber Alert because she ran off with some guy from Colorado. Great judgment runs in that family I guess.
