He’s Back!
Over at Mixed Media, Kyle reports that Joel Montgomery showed up for yesterday’s City Council meeting. Apparently not everyone was glad to see him. What a surprise.
During the public speakers portion of the Tuesday council meeting, one of Montgomery’s former council assistants, Betty Cannon, blasted him for neglecting his duties as a councilor and demanded that he resign. According to Cannon, she had called Montgomery’s office with a question during the councilor’s absence. In return, she received a letter from Montgomery’s office telling her she was a stupid person who needed to take classes at Jefferson State Community College.
“For someone who had a memory loss, you remembered me in a hurry,” she said to the councilor.
Cannon served as Montgomery’s assistant shortly after he was first elected in 2001. She was one of three female council assistants who either quit or were fired by Montgomery in the councilor’s first three years in office.
“I’m sick and tired of paying your salary while you’re doing whatever it is that you’re doing and wherever it is that you’re doing it,” Cannon said. “I’m sick and tired of paying for lawsuits for whatever you’re doing and wherever it is that you’re doing it.”
Um, I guess that might be these lawsuits (scroll down to paragraph 13).