Broken first by, Jessica Lloyd-Rogers, editor and publisher of Coast Lake News, July 14, 2010, and reprinted two days later, right here on MGx, The World reports on city attorney Fred Carleton’s and Lakeside City Council’s liberal interpretation of the US Constitution.
Lakeside’s city attorney wants to repeal a new civil violations and enforcement ordinance because it’s too vague and may infringe on people rights.
Although he drafted it, Fred Carleton admits it’s not well written and could have a constitutional defect.
Well, well, well… it may have a ‘constitutional defect’. Meanwhile, a local blog that appears to be little more than a stenography service and spin machine for Lakeside City Hall defended Carleton’s actions, which he now renounces, and called Coast Lake News a ‘tabloid’.
Nowhere in The World article does author, who was in attendance at the very council meeting setting off this firestorem, attribute any credit to Coast Lake News or LLoyd-Rogers. Even BlueOregon beat The World to the punch on July 22.
Thank goodness for independent media! Thank goodness there are news outlets who don’t allow ad revenue to dictate their content and who really care about democracy. Thank goodness there are real reporters, willing to stick their necks out and not just ride on other’s coattails. Jessica deserves credit for this story and we should all let The World know it. Her reporting is the main reason this ordinance will be overturned… this is real democracy in action.
