It’s been a very telling day.
Nathan Moore, an English Only opponent and a “keen conservative legal mind”, digs up some pertinent info from Green Bay, Wisconsin, one of the bigger cities to have passed an English Only ordinance.
Councilman Eric Crafton, the English Only referendum sponsor, attempts to back out of a scheduled debate obligation because “If Karl Dean doesn’t have enough time to come,” he said. “I don’t see why I should.”
Sean Braisted, English Only opponent, calls Crafton on some of his New York Times-worthy anecdotal evidence (and makes an appropriate analogy).
Lady with a car, who is either for Crafton’s referendum or just really loves signage, almost runs over FOL* and Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel Managing Director Tom Negri, while stealing an “Against/Against” lawn sign.
A day like this makes it even more apparent that the clearer heads in this English Only battle are those who are against the referendum.
*Friend of Liberadio(!)
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It is rediculus that this issue is even coming up for a vote. Let’s hope the Bush economy doesn’t bring out the worst in us.
Don’t forget the article today in the Tennessean, where Crafton claimed that the only thing that will change as a result of this amendment is that all Metro Council and board meetings with be in English only. (Which they already are, except for the time when Crafton spoke Japanese to prove a point.)
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090112/NEWS04/901120339
If that’s true, then this special election seriously has to be the worst waste of taxpayer money in the history of Metro government.