March 5, 2010
OREGON EDITION
The Temporary Grants Pass City Council
Following the recall Mayor Murphy, a dedicated insider, ignoring any kind of protocol, law, charter, ethic, or what have you, just made five phone calls and formed himself an instant quorum. (In our town there are eight councilors—it takes five to make things happen.) Voila! Five phone calls - a quorum! A legal challenge was mounted against the mayor's action but ran headlong into an insider judge who ruled that expedience dictated leaping over protocol. Gavel comes down in favor of Mayor Murphy's five.........
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by Bernie Conrad
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