Kind of related, but not really. I am short, my best friend is not. We recently went to the theater and our seats were behind a couple in a very similar height situation. I sat behind the short person, he sat behind the tall person. Cue a cascade of seat-switching couples that went back for a good six rows. It was…

I recently discovered it is possible to feel guilty for not feeling guilty. This past weekend, I went out of town sans kids for some me time. The kid was with her grandparents, who she spends time with just about every day and likes more than me. But the kid did not like that I was leaving and was kind of a brat when…

Things did get better. I'm really not trying to win the misery Olympics, but sometimes people don't understand the reality of how terrible the maternal leave situation is in the United States. And, unfortunately, the people who get shafted are those who can least afford it. Hourly service workers (like I was) are…

This is shitty. But it can get shittier. I got none. Literally none. In fact, I had to quit my job. Because I had no paid time off (including sick days) and the company wasn't big enough for FMLA, I had no guaranteed spot waiting for me when I could come back. And they flat out told me they would fire me for excessive…

Can we also talk about how they don't even bother getting an actual fucking person to model the plus size clothes?

Polling locations being a "sizable commute" from one's home is a bigger issue that affects more that just the young. Election Day Registration is a big benefit to younger voters. Changing the acceptable forms of proof of address and/or ID to include documents that younger people have would also help. Young voters also…

Great. What the fuck does this have to do with this post?

Are elected officials not allowed to tweet under the Brown act? Are they not allowed to tweet personal observations? I found a handful of LA council members on Twitter. Also, just because she's an elected official does not make her part of the body she was tweeting about. I'm a clerk in WI and well versed in WI's open…

What else would a public official Tweet about other than city matters? If it wasn't a directed tweet, then it was a one-way communication, which is not a violation. If other members of the body were replying, it could. But, typically, the clerk is not a member of the body, and wouldn't be held to the same standards of…

Can you clarify what exactly is the violation? A quick Google search informs me the Brown Act has to do with Open Meetings. She's communicating one way with these updates, so it would not be considered a meeting. If she was tweeting something during closed session, then yes, it's an obvious violation. However, that…

Other posters have said the the account has since been deleted. And I run my municipality's official clerk Twitter. I send out updates during meetings, but my municipality also says that minutes should not contain anything other than action and result. I don't have to worry about capturing what anyone says.

I am a city clerk. I'm not defending her, but I am intimately familiar with her frustrations. I agree that the Twitter posts were not the problem, but rather her inability to produce minutes. It sounds like everyone involved will benefit from this outcome.

I agree elected does not mean immune, but her supervisor is not the mayor and/or the city manager. The state legislature is not supervised by the governor and Congress is not supervised by the President. Of course they have input on her performance.

Corrupt, no? Ineffective, sure. And asking is fine, but they are under no obligation to do it. In this case, it sounds like it worked out best for everyone.

I'm a clerk in WI; I'm intimately familiar with the duties. But unless there's some special exception for clerks in CA, elected officials can't be "fired." There can be recalls and other impeachment proceedings, but they can't be fired. The council can also open up the city to a lawsuit, but they can't be "fired."

An elected official's personal Twitter account that only features neutral tweets kind of defeats the purpose. And the council can't require that from her personal account elected official =/= employee. The members of the council are not her superiors.

I'm not, but half my office is. I am, honest to goodness, doing minutes from a meeting last night.

This is absolutely an appropriate action in this case. I gather from the fact that she was still the clerk and the source states that she "had" been the subject of a recall that it wasn't successful. Sounds like the voters spoke.

Fair point, but it's the voters who ultimately get to decide that, not the other council members.

Except in this case, it was a political position. She was and elected clerk. Tweeting personal observations from a personal account is what every politician with any knowledge of Twitter does. If she's not doing her job, then the public has a chance to remedy that an re-election.