In our January 1, 2015 edition, Rumbo published the document that the Council of Lawrence planned to discuss and vote on Tuesday, 13th of this month of January.
The document shows certain irregularities committed by Mayor Daniel Rivera, who according to the President of the Council, Modesto Maldonado should be corrected.
According to the document, Mayor Rivera has violated the Constitution of the City repeatedly putting the city at risk of being taken to court and sued for millions of dollars.
During the Tuesday 13 meeting, public participation became an attack on the councilors by some members of the audience who came only to threaten that they will be voted out of office in the next election if they continue with the process.
A colorful note was given by Representative Marcos Devers. In our opinion, given his position as State Representative he should have been granted longer time to express his opinion. But that was not the case, he was given the same time as an ordinary citizen, so he should have ended his participation as soon as his time expired, rather than speak over the President of the Council, while the latter kept hammering on the table demanding silence.
The amazing thing about this is that the people in the audience who yesterday criticized the former mayor for his arrogant way of governing the city, are the ones that now claim, “If the previous mayor did it and nobody did anything about it, what’s wrong if the new one does the same?” It is useless trying to reason with this mentality. You run the risk of being branded a Lantiguista.
In our opinion, the only sensible participation expressed last Tuesday before the Council was that of Wayne Hayes, president of Mt. Vernon Neighborhood Association, who called on both sides to sit down and resolve these issues. This was the position we expected from Representative Devers.
Lawrence deserves it!
