Why we need to keep pushing

If you read the Mayor's words in the Woodinville Weekly this week, you will see why we need to keep pushing for stronger ethics rules for City Council behavior.

Talmas' take on an ethics ordinance? "You can’t, as a Council, infringe on someone’s freedom of speech rights" he said.

How is it infringing on the Mayor's free speech to ask him to keep his operatives off the private property of his fellow Council members? How does it violate Talmas' rights to ask him to pull the secret late-night watchers from in front of other Council members' homes, watching the coming's and goings and reporting back to the Mayor?

How does it violate Talmas' rights to ask that, while they are in public, they conduct themselves in a manner of which Woodinville citizens can be proud?

Keep calling your Council members and the Mayor! You are having an impact, but we must keep up the pressure until the Council votes and passes it.