Ron Corbett is bringing his own, “the one Kay has is too small.” Yep, he has his own gavel and it’s bigger! Rick Smith with the Gazette has more of the conversation with the new Mayor here.
I am happy that Ron is willing to respond to citizens speaking in public, on the record, to the Council. Hopefully, the rest of the Council will follow his lead. When he first mentioned a bigger gavel was needed, I thought it had something to do with the rest of the Council. The blog doesn’t mention needing to pound sense to any members only that the Mayor will have the gavel handy to use should a Citizen start to get out of hand. So Citizens, be warned! Mayor has Big Gavel and IS NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!
I hope that those of you who read my blogs on Essential Estrogen realize that a lot of the time I am trying to make a point but at the same time be a little lighthearted. For instance, with Pat Shey. I do like Pat. I do think he needs an auto-reply put on his email that says something like, thank you for contacting me, yada yada yada. In politics, at times we take ourselves too serious. However, there are times it is appropriate to be serious.
Every year in Washington D.C. the Press Corps has a Dinner and the President usually makes fun of himself and those around him. Others make light of his administration and his mannerisms and loved ones. It’s part of the nights events and has sort of become a tradition.
The point that I want to make is I believe there are times it is appropriate to make jokes about our President, caricatures of him, skits belittling him, and so on. This night is one of them. He is a part of it. I know people do a lot of this. I admit, I’ve laughed at some of it.
I believe it is important to respect the office of the President of the United States of America. I don’t like it when people are not respectful of President Obama. I didn’t like when people were not respectful of President Bush. These men walk a journey that few men will walk. I pray that God protects them and guides them. It doesn’t matter if they are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Christian, Jewish or Muslim and all the other choices. They are the President of the United States of America.
There is a video making the rounds on You Tube of women in Coralville, yes they are Republican, making fun of the President. Several things bother me. I don’t like them making fun of my President. President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize, he didn’t sign up for it, he was awarded it. Let’s be proud Americans and be proud that a President of the United States of America is receiving this award!
The thing that bothers me the most about this video is that it is a mockery of a video the school children did to honor President Obama for Black History month. I am dismayed that in their fun they totally forgot they were not only making fun of the President, they were making fun of the children. Shame on you.
I wonder, will the Johnson County Republican Women’s group make a statement regarding this poorly thought out idea? Will we see a statement from the Iowa Federation of Republican Women? Prior to this year I’ve always held a position on a board, I no longer do. If I did and no statement comes out, I would resign.
Kathy Potts
