SN&R > Columns > Bites > Serious misgivings > 10.01.09:
"When the council, under the influence of some arm twisting by Johnson and his paid political team, rushed the strong-mayor proposal onto the June 2010 ballot—the Bee supported the move. That undercut the work of the charter committee and precluded discussion of many of the alternative reforms that were on the committee’s agenda—including major election reform, term limits and the creation of an ethics commission.
But you wouldn’t know any of that from reading the Bee, which hasn’t covered any of the meetings or any of the discussion of the committee, and indeed has barely even acknowledged that the committee exists."
"When the council, under the influence of some arm twisting by Johnson and his paid political team, rushed the strong-mayor proposal onto the June 2010 ballot—the Bee supported the move. That undercut the work of the charter committee and precluded discussion of many of the alternative reforms that were on the committee’s agenda—including major election reform, term limits and the creation of an ethics commission.
But you wouldn’t know any of that from reading the Bee, which hasn’t covered any of the meetings or any of the discussion of the committee, and indeed has barely even acknowledged that the committee exists."