{"id":4815,"date":"2010-08-03T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2010-08-03T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:44:57","slug":"your-elected-representatives-demand-tokens-of-your-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/your-elected-representatives-demand-tokens-of-your-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Your elected representatives <em>demand<\/em> tokens of your respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have elected them (someone had to), but you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/07\/29\/city-council-politics-illinois-opinions-columnists-kevin-underhill.html\" target=\"_blank\">must show deference and respect<\/a> at all times:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sources reported this week that the city council of Elmhurst, Ill., had asked its attorney to research various definitions of &#8220;disorderly conduct,&#8221; in the course of considering possible changes to rules of decorum in city council meetings. The move was prompted by an incident in June in which a frustrated citizen rolled her eyes and audibly sighed during a meeting, and was promptly ejected from the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Darlene Helsop had hoped to speak to the finance committee about its plan to hire a state lobbyist, but wasn&#8217;t given the opportunity to do so. She sighed and rolled her eyes, to the great irritation of committee chairman Stephen Hipskind. &#8220;Making faces behind the mayor&#8217;s back is disruptive, in my opinion,&#8221; he said, and he ordered Helsop to leave. To their credit, other council members objected and two left, ending the meeting for lack of a quorum. But the council still seems to have asked its attorney to look into the legal ramifications of a rule that would encompass eye-rolling and (presumably) face-making.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So remember, <strike><font color=\"red\">serfs<\/font><\/strike> citizens, show respect to your <strike><font color=\"red\">owners<\/font><\/strike> leaders . . . or else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have elected them (someone had to), but you must show deference and respect at all times: Sources reported this week that the city council of Elmhurst, Ill., had asked its attorney to research various definitions of &#8220;disorderly conduct,&#8221; in the course of considering possible changes to rules of decorum in city council meetings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,53,13],"tags":[52,86,77],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-criticism","tag-ego"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}