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A Texas Solution to a Local Problem
I think many of you know that the architect of the Uvalde disaster, police chief Pete Arredondo had been elected to Uvalde’s City Council before the massacre and sworn in after it. This left many Uvalde residents deeply unhappy. Many of his constituents were seeking to remove him. However the city charter does not have provisions to remove him from city council for his incompetence as police chief, and he cannot be recalled because he was just sworn in and has not been in office long enough. The mayor was explaining this to one irate citizen after another.
Then one of his constituents addressed the city council and offered them a lifeline. Listen:
Uvalde City Council: Extremely inspired by the lady who lives 2 doors down from the school coming up w the plan to sack Arredondo. No leave of abs. If he misses 1 more mtg he's out. If he wants to keep his job he has to show. She studied & found a technicality no one else had. pic.twitter.com/uigygoDxMu
— 🦉Serene (@MythSerene) June 22, 2022
Yup. It seems Arredondo has been absenting himself from city council meetings to avoid facing Uvalde’s outraged citizenry. And the city charter has a provision that if a councilman misses three meetings in a row the rest of the council could boot him from the council. Item Six on the agenda that night was a vote to grant an extended leave of absence to Arredondo, which would have relieved him of the obligation to attend. Guess how that vote went after the good lady pointed out what happened.
Your move chief. He can remain on the council — if he attends the next meeting.
It is the most small-town Texas solution to an apparently insoluble problem I have seen in a long time.
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I like it.
Works for me. I hope he misses the third meeting or resigns. Simple.
Things like this is why I love living in Texas
Or maybe he shows up to the next meeting, protected by the cops who didn’t protect the kids.
That would be a feature not a bug.
I doubt he’s man enough to resign. If he was, he wouldn’t have sat around for 90 minutes until someone on the scene got tired of the BS and charged in without his approval. I doubt he is man enough to come to a meeting and face the public.
And the hits keep coming.
What a mess. As I said in a post involving this incident the first people in line that deserve an honest report are those that lost loved ones in this tragedy.
How soon will we know? When is the next meeting supposed to be?
I think they meet Mondays.
EVERY Monday? That would be unusual, seems to me.
Next month then.
But possibly a good idea.
Probably the best way to reduce attendance, in the real world.
I love the solution & the whole damn town should show up to see him or not.
I hereby invite her to Thanksgiving dinner.
I’d invite her to my 4th of July fireworks party, but nothing that I and my friends might ignite could hold a (Roman) candle to her performance.
God bless her,
God bless Texas,
God bless America.
Why don’t we know the names of the cops who decided to take a 70 minute smoke break after they got to the school? Will they be the same ones protecting Arredondo?
Everyone deserves it.
Have so many people blocking the door to the meeting, he can’t get inside before they start – he misses the meeting . . .