Why was Bill Bailey, the only remaining member of Santa Clara Plays Fair, congratulating Jamie McLeod (who received an illegal campaign contribution from Bailey), and Will Kennedy?
Because they chose to implement the Bailey Plan.
Bailey is on record as participating in San Francisco based development projects. So in order to please his superiors, Bailey sought to give them carte blanche to spend, spend, spend, in any local election in Santa Clara.
Bailey's cohort, Mr. Peppertree decided also to ask Kennedy to back a plan to restrict political speech at council meetings.
Where was the other member of the Terrible Trio?
Reports are that Bailey and Mr. Peppertree gave Hazel three quart bottles of Malt Liquor and a couple of Seconal, and Stevie was out for the count.
City Clerk Diridon and Dominic Caserta testified as well as Dr. Shanks and our city legal staff that such proposals violated good ethics policies and the Constitution.
Diridon did not make reference to that, he had a better argument, it was a violation of the City Clerk Code of Ethics, and also impractical to implement.
Mr. Peppertree who has some interesting ideas about political freedom, as he once told a newspaper that editorials are subject to state law, felt satisfied. Freedom took a back seat.
Oh, we do have to commend the Ethics Committee for developing meeting conduct standards. Putting Hazel through a metal detector would be a good idea as well.
They did consider comments about immigration status to be inappropriate. Poor Robert Smith, he will have to focus his racially charged comments that he got from the Turner Diaries, in some other venue.