Nugent dispute leads to call for Longview mayor to resign

[TexasTowelie]

Concerns about the city’s mid-February cancellation of negotiations with rocker Ted Nugent for the city’s July fourth celebration came to a head Thursday as Longview residents packed City Council chambers to ask for more information.

Comments ranged from calling for the resignation of the mayor and city manager to the termination of employees responsible for the discussions to hire Nugent, while others offered support for the city and its processes.

The crowd filled the chamber hall and overflowed into the lobby of the Jo Ann Metcalf Municipal Building.

“I am not really concerned about Ted Nugent … I don’t listen to the radio,” said Jim Martin, who called for Mayor Jay Dean’s resignation. “What I am concerned about is the tax payers’ $16,000. That is money that in my opinion is wasted.”

Dean and City Manager David Willard flatly rejected the notion of resignation, and Dean defended upper level city staff’s behavior in the much-discussed actions that came to light last week.

More at http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/nugent-dispute-leads-to-call-for-mayor-to-resign/article_026fdc2b-b14f-591a-b9f4-7fa6cf72912e.html .

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[SummerSnow]

1. He has the reverse Midas touch, everything he touches goes to shit

[TexasProgresive]

2. Especially in his pants

Nuggie the poppie pants draft dodging gun nut.

[white cloud]

3. Where are their

family Christian values gone to.. Good for CO Longview. All we need is one more draft dodging, poacher, bigot, pedophile in East Texas.

[Thinkingabout]

4. They should give an award to the mayor for saving Longview from Nugent.

[TlalocW]

5. The $16,000 is a valid point

I know they paid it because they thought a contractual agreement possibly required them to, and they thought better to just deal with it and move on instead of getting the lawyers involved, but for anyone upset about Nugent not showing up, if I were the mayor, I'd have the town hall meeting and show the YouTube video of Nugent brandishing machine guns, cursing, and call Obama and Hillary filthy names. I'd say, "Regardless of your political and personal beliefs, the possibility of this behavior from an act we hire should preclude us from considering them. I don't really think this is the kind of inclusive entertainment we should have at our celebration."

Half of the Ted-heads (maybe) would realize that further argument would make them look stupid. The other half of them would still try to argue but probably be shouted down by everyone else to let it drop.

TlalocW

[Gothmog]

6. Greg Abbot is not running a smart campaign

Greg was an idiot to campaign with Ted Nugent