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January 30, 2012
EVENT Warden Challenge to New Rules ofDecorum
TIME 5:00 pmDATE February 07, 2012PLACE Tucson City Council
Meeting
Regarding the First Amendment, the so-called Civility Accord and
theTucson City Council Rules of Decorum for speech during Call to
the Audience which was in the public eye last September: the Tucson
CityCouncil is trying to pull a fast one and Tucson activist Roy
Warden sayshes not going to let them get away with it.
Last September Warden was arrested when he criticized the City
Councilfor hiring former Tucson Police Chief Richard Miranda as
Tucson CityManager in 2008, just three weeks after the City paid
1.7 million dollars ofa federal judgment of 2.9 million dollars
finding Miranda, and two others,
liable for conspiracy and first amendment retaliation.
In October Warden filed a Special Action in Pima County Superior
Courtseeking to overturn the Rules of Decorum which permitted his
arrest andremoval from the City Council Chambers for uttering works
the thenTucson Mayor, Bob Walkup, considered impertinent and
slanderous.
After a flurry of briefs and motions the Court entertained oral
argument onJanuary 23, 2012.
On Tuesday January 24, 2012 the City Council, without comment,
public
notice or a press release, adopted new Rules of Decorum which
Wardenclaims are just as constitutionally offensive as the old
ones.
On January 23, 2012 the City Attorney, in sum and substance,
told theCourt: You dont have to rule on Wardens suit on the old
rules, Judge.Weve got new rules were adopting tomorrow.
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Then they pulled a fast one, Warden says. In sum and substance,
theytold the Judge: You cant consider Wardens objections to the new
rulesbecause the issue of the new rules is not before the
Court.
Warden calls the City Attorneys argument sleight of hand,
trickery, or
legal mumbo-jumbo, and vows to renew the issue in court, if
necessary,and during Call to the Audience on February 07, 2012.
Simply speaking, the City of Tucson doesn't want people to
makecomments they consider to be impertinent or slanderous
regarding theirofficial conduct during Call to the Audience.
"They continue to break the law and break faith with local
citizens on vitalFirst Amendment issues, Warden says. And I will
keep them in court aslong as it takes to protect the publics right
to challenge the rectitude ofgovernment and to get this issue
resolved.
Roy WardenArizona Common Sense
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