Citizens in Support of Dr. Williams

The following comments were shared by Georgia Stumpf at Monday night’s board meeting, in which four members of the board (Susan Adams, Nancy Walsh, Barbara Thompson and Rubie Alexander) denied the public the right to be heard by the board and walked out.Â

In America, citizens elect officials to work for them! This township elected you to work for us! That means you are responsible to us! Though I feel confident that absolutely no one in this township elected you to deny us our first amendment rights, that is exactly what you have done. Representing us requires that you respect us, listen to us, and answer our questions. Furthermore, it requires that you hand over all township information to all our elected Board members equally, at the same time, and to us when we ask for it.

However, here’s what you are doing to our rights: You

1. Prohibit us from having input into issues coming up for a vote. Remember, these issues are ours!
2. Prohibit employees from speaking about issues through fear or intimidation; these people have rights too.
3. Cut us off from speaking with that insulting ding after only 2 min. – certainly an unreasonable time for saying much of anything.
4. Under armed guard, removed us for saying what you don’t want to hear: think of this –armed guards!
5. Tell us what we can and cannot say. If we disobey, we are removed by armed guards.
6. Prohibit us from addressing members of the Board directly even though you seem to have no trouble at all addressing us directly from your mics.
7. Lie or mislead us with deceptive language. We have the responsibility to correct you when you do this.
8. Humiliate us, by name, from your elected seat or from anywhere else as though we are misbehaving children. You remaining Board members should absolutely not tolerate this!

In one way or the other, you have shut us and our voices down. News flash: This is America! We have First Ammendment rights! Furthermore, you are not the bosses, the queens, or God. You are our employees. You are a catastrophy for this township! You need to be fired!