Ah, Cambridge: Uproar at City Council meeting over posters urging city workers to 'buy local'

By adamg - 6/30/11 - 7:41 am

Cambridge Day reports on a debate sparked when one councilor blasted the alleged privacy violations of another councilor's proposed resolution for buy-local posters. Another wondered aloud what he should do if he wanted to support minority business owners but the shops were owned by minority owners from out of town.

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My first laugh of the day

By Miss M - 6/30/11 - 8:10 am

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"when something comes through as a council order, that’s a very powerful statement to city employees.”

They're like gods, those city councilors.

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Welp

By anon (not verified) - 6/30/11 - 8:33 am

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http://withoutapologyinmaine.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/why-buying-local-doesnt-work/

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Privacy?

By Lunchbox - 6/30/11 - 9:05 am

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I'm not seeing how this implicates "privacy" concerns. A supervisor gently suggesting that employees do something is a violation of privacy?

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Where the privacy comes in

By adamg - 6/30/11 - 10:58 am

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If you look at up-and-coming-go-getter Leland Cheung's original resolution or order or whatever they call it in Cantabridgia, it refers to a specific incident in which somebody at City Hall ordered flowers for Administrative Assistants' Day from FTD instead of from a local florist.

I think that's what set off Toomey, even though it doesn't name whoever it was that had such audacity.

I also think the Cambridge City Council has some anger-management issues. And I wonder if Councilor Reeve's head would explode if he lived in Jamaica Plain instead of Cambridge.

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I had the exact same thought

By kirs - 6/30/11 - 11:16 am

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I also think the Cambridge City Council has some anger-management issues. And I wonder if Councilor Reeve's head would explode if he lived in Jamaica Plain instead of Cambridge.

These folks couldn't handle the insanity that is JP. I know I can barely stand it.