Follow-up to this idiocy: So unbelievable I had to double confirm. It IS TRUE!-----PA mayor asking for removal of soldier symbols at Veterans ParkMeeting was supposed to happen yesterday.
Note the contempt in the mayor's "apology".
Port Angeles mayor withdraws Veterans Memorial Park fence discussion | Peninsula Daily News
"PORT ANGELES — Mayor Sissi Bruch’s decision Tuesday to withdraw her controversial proposal for Veterans Memorial Park failed to mollify fellow council member and former mayor Cherie Kidd, a critic of the plan.
“She has misrepresented our community statewide,” Kidd said.
...“It was clear from the responses we have received that we are not going to be able to have a thoughtful conversation about this topic [tonight],” Bruch said in a statement released by City Clerk Kari Martinez-Bailey.
...Bruch believed “there was not the emotional space out there to discuss this,” she said in the interview later Tuesday.
“I did not want to bring more divisiveness in our community.”
...“This seems to be blaming veterans and their supporters for their reaction to her trying to take away a wonderful, community-built community asset that has been approved by the parks and recreation commission and paid for by the citizens.
“She has blamed others for what she has done.”
Bruch, who is not a military veteran and had an uncle who served in the Bolivian military, said she meant “absolutely no disrespect at all” toward veterans and wanted to use a symbol different than guns to mark their sacrifice, such as the American flag or the Constitution.
“I would rather look at the ideals rather than the brute force to save those ideals,” she said.
“This world is already harsh.”
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