Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen tries suppressing protected free speech during Elk Grove City Council meeting
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen tries suppressing free speech during the September 11, 2024 city council meeting. | Mayor Singh-Allen...
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| Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen tries suppressing free speech during the September 11, 2024 city council meeting. | |
Mayor Singh-Allen behaves like Donald Trump
Even by her already paltry standards, Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen reached a new low in her efforts to quash dissent and criticism during public meetings. The most recent incident happened during the September 11, 2024, Elk Grove City Council meeting.
The Mayor expressed her desire to deny First Amendment rights during public comment on non-agenda items. Much like Donald Trump's performance during the Tuesday, September 10 presidential debate where Vice President Kamala Kamala Harris triggered the former president's weird behavior, Singh-Allen was flustered that a member of the public and political opponent dared question her during a city council meeting.
Using her constitutionally protected First Amendment rights, Elk Grove resident and mayoral candidate Lynn Wheat highlighted the health dangers of tobacco use, emphasizing the effects on America's youth. Noting that the Mayor accepted a $2,500 donation from tobacco purveyor R.J. Reynolds in an almost apologetic manner, Ms. Wheat implored the Mayor to return the donation.
After hearing Wheat's remarks, Singh-Allen stated that free speech is limited at city council meetings. The Mayor could not be more wrong.
The Mayor, allegedly a law student, must have skipped the lessons on protected speech. Singh-Allen did not like being called out for accepting money from one of the world's most detested death merchants, as it called into question her carefully cultivated image of being a compassionate, caring person.
Being an apostolate of big tobacco death merchants tarnished Singh-Allen's image. See the entire exchange in the first video below.
Aside from mounds of case law, much less the First Amendment, Singh-Allen is once again clueless about the American democratic process. Also, the Mayor and her city council have a penchant for violating California's open meeting laws, the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Consider these two people making political and campaign comments during non-agenda items of city council meetings. These videos are from 2014 and 2008.
In the second video below, former Elk Grove City Councilmember Steve Detrick announced his candidacy during the April 9, 2008, city council meeting.
The third video below shows California Assembly candidate Manuel Martin challenging and taking to task then Elk Grove City Councilmember Jim Cooper.
Neither Detrick nor Martin was admonished and told public comment on political and campaign matters during non-agenda times was banned speech.
Ms. Wheat got under Singh-Allen's skin. This erratic and unprofessional behavior shows that for all her smiling bluster and social media posts, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen is as thin-skinned as Donald Trump and will do anything to suppress criticism.
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The Mayor expressed her desire to deny First Amendment rights during public comment on non-agenda items. Much like Donald Trump's performance during the Tuesday, September 10 presidential debate where Vice President Kamala Kamala Harris triggered the former president's weird behavior, Singh-Allen was flustered that a member of the public and political opponent dared question her during a city council meeting.
Using her constitutionally protected First Amendment rights, Elk Grove resident and mayoral candidate Lynn Wheat highlighted the health dangers of tobacco use, emphasizing the effects on America's youth. Noting that the Mayor accepted a $2,500 donation from tobacco purveyor R.J. Reynolds in an almost apologetic manner, Ms. Wheat implored the Mayor to return the donation.
After hearing Wheat's remarks, Singh-Allen stated that free speech is limited at city council meetings. The Mayor could not be more wrong.
The Mayor, allegedly a law student, must have skipped the lessons on protected speech. Singh-Allen did not like being called out for accepting money from one of the world's most detested death merchants, as it called into question her carefully cultivated image of being a compassionate, caring person.
Being an apostolate of big tobacco death merchants tarnished Singh-Allen's image. See the entire exchange in the first video below.
Aside from mounds of case law, much less the First Amendment, Singh-Allen is once again clueless about the American democratic process. Also, the Mayor and her city council have a penchant for violating California's open meeting laws, the Ralph M. Brown Act.
Consider these two people making political and campaign comments during non-agenda items of city council meetings. These videos are from 2014 and 2008.
In the second video below, former Elk Grove City Councilmember Steve Detrick announced his candidacy during the April 9, 2008, city council meeting.
The third video below shows California Assembly candidate Manuel Martin challenging and taking to task then Elk Grove City Councilmember Jim Cooper.
Neither Detrick nor Martin was admonished and told public comment on political and campaign matters during non-agenda times was banned speech.
Ms. Wheat got under Singh-Allen's skin. This erratic and unprofessional behavior shows that for all her smiling bluster and social media posts, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen is as thin-skinned as Donald Trump and will do anything to suppress criticism.
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She was already on the receiving end of a lawsuit by the State Attorney General--wanna try the ACLU now? These bullying tactics must stop!
It looks like my alma mater is slipping in its ability to teach basic Constitutional law in more recent years or perhaps the mayor perhaps didn’t pass that course. As mayor and as a law “graduate?” the mayor should understand that the public may speak to issues such as candidate’s funding at public comment, it’s a privilege guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. Pretty basic stuff.
Trump has MAGA, for Mayor Bobbie, it's MEGGA - Make Elk Grove Great Again!
Other than voicing threats, a member of the public can use their “three minutes” of democracy at the podium to say or do whatever they feel is necessary.
These are actual examples of many: three minutes of total silence to protest the actions of the city council; playing a guitar and singing; and even, on occasion, to make a point, using the “f-word.”
In all three examples, the mayor at the time turned to the city attorney to intervene. What did the city attorney say, “It is the speaker’s First Amendment Right.”
The laws regarding “no politicking on city premises” are reserved solely for elected officials. I guess Mayor BSA missed that part of the required AB 1234 training.
Maybe our non-member of the California State Bar ought to stick to grocery store grand openings and stop trying to be a lawyer.
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