If you missed the Council meeting last night, you missed a long one. But the fireworks really blew up after the cameras were turned off. Here’s the press release from Councilman Steve Adams about what happened after the meeting. Hold onto your hats, you are not going to believe what the Mayor did and said:
“While still in the community room after last night’s city council meeting, City Attorney Mike Gridley approached me and asked if I was going to provide him with a copy of the ethics complaint I filed against him. I told him the Idaho State Bar would likely send him a copy with a request to respond. He then proceeded to get in my face and told me I was a “moron”. I asked him If he was threatening me, he said no, but that in 30 years of practicing law he had never had anyone make a complaint against him, and again he told me I was “moron”. He was still in my face at this point, just inches away, leaning in on me. I again asked if he was threatening me and he said no, but that I could “fu** off you stupid moron.” At this point I grabbed my cell phone and called 911 to ask for officer assistance as I perceived this as an assault. Mr. Gridley walked away saying he was going to his office and then home. I walked through the library and into the ante room where the Mayor, Mike Kennedy, Deanna Goodlander, Wendy Gabriel and Jon Ingalls were standing. Mike Kennedy told me I should calm down. I told him about the exchange I had with Mr. Gridley and he responded with surprise and expressed dissatisfaction. I turned to the Mayor and pointed at her exclaiming that she should take disciplinary action against Mr. Gridley. She told me not to point at her, so I apologized for pointing. She then said not only would she not be disciplining Mr. Gridley but, raising her fist at me, she said she had half a mind to “punch my nose off of my face.” For the City Attorney to verbally assault me, twice now, with inflammatory and derogatory comments, is a violation of his attorney code of ethics and, according to the city’s personnel rules, is insubordination. I call for his immediate termination.
Mayor Bloem’s actions are unprofessional, disrespectful and definitely unbecoming for the Mayor. I demand an apology.” –Steve Adams
In a March 29, 2013 news article headlined Ex-Atlanta Schools Chief Is Indicted in Testing Scandal, the New York Times reported that former Atlanta School Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall and 35 of her fellow educators were indicted by a Fulton County (Georgia) grand jury for “… racketeering, theft, influencing witnesses, conspiracy and making false statements.” The grand jury indictment alleges that those charged were involved in “the most widespread public school cheating scandal in memory.”
