Well, it appears the inmates are finally running the asylum. Is this the new trend, be a typical millennial, have it pointed out by someone who isn't going to tolerate your crap, file a lawsuit, get a little warm fuzzy after you were degraded?

https://www.clickondetroit.com...ng-comment-to-intern

WALLED LAKE, Mich. - A popular elected official in Walled Lake just got kicked out of the City Council in controversial fashion.

Walled Lake is two square miles and has around 7,000 residents. The City Council voted out one of its members because of what she is accused of saying to a young intern.

Former council member Susan Helke is a retired grandmother and an admitted contrarian. She lost her seat Feb. 1.

"I think it's a terrible thing to do to the city," Helke said.

A 23-year-old Oakland Community College student, Miranda Gross, filed a complaint with the city after Helke allegedly used a controversial phrase to describe Gross in front of residents and staff after a meeting a year and a half ago.

"When you call someone a 'silly F'n twit,' yes, that's very degrading," Mayor Linda Ackley said.

"Never," Helke said. "I wouldn't call anyone that."

Gross filed a hostile work environment complaint against Helke, and in an affidavit, said, "Although I am youthful looking, I am not a juvenile and I prefer not to be treated as such by any elected official. The offensive, unwanted, demeaning, humiliating conduct originally complained about came in the form of classless questioning by council member Helke."

The comment was a "violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of the gender bias," Ackley said.

Nobody involved believed Helke asked for a date or mentioned anything about Gross' gender. Yet after a long investigation and considerable debate, the City Council voted 5-1 to remove Helke.

"It was not political on my part," Ackley said.

"I had almost 400 people vote for me, and I think they've been disenfranchised, disrespected," Helke said.

Helke wrote an apology letter to Gross, but she and the council members said they didn't believe it was genuine.

Now, Helke is considering a court challenge and will continue her political activism, possibly including another run for City Council and backing others to run.

So this is a township with 7000 people and a myopic city council, who cares?

I do, that's who. A silly f*ckn twit made an unsupported accusation and an elected official, noted to be a contrarian, was removed from office. No apparent appeal unless it is an expensive legal challenge and not only has an inconvenience been removed but with no real trouble.

The signal here is not of virtue but of societal domination and group-think.

Nothing says "I'm not a silly f'n twit" like acting like a silly f'n twit.

Calling her a twit was not gender bias whatsoever. In the “Twit of the Year “ sketch on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, all of the contestants were men.

As Graham Chapman once said: “She’s a looney!”

Sue Helke is a long time friend of mine. I know her to be someone who wants to do things right and is truthful to a fault. Sue will tell the truth even when she knows she shouldn't. Truth and doing things right has no place on the Walled Lake City Council. The Mayor and her gang of thugs could teach Nancy Pelosi how to run a corrupt government. Sue refused to go along with them, so she had to go. Simple as that. It is a shame, Walled Lake is a nice place to live (been here 38 years); except for the corrupt government we endure since the Mayor got elected.
Rod

Did she or didn't she call the intern that name?

I don't see in the OP where she admitted she did. Rather, it says she would never call anyone that.

And if she didn't, why did she write the apoogy?

“It’s dangerous to be an honest man.” Michael Corleone

How can you remove an ELECTED OFFICIAL based on this complaint? That doesn't add up. You can't un-elect someone for this.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:
Sue Helke is a long time friend of mine. I know her to be someone who wants to do things right and is truthful to a fault. Sue will tell the truth even when she knows she shouldn't. Truth and doing things right has no place on the Walled Lake City Council. The Mayor and her gang of thugs could teach Nancy Pelosi how to run a corrupt government. Sue refused to go along with them, so she had to go. Simple as that. It is a shame, Walled Lake is a nice place to live (been here 38 years); except for the corrupt government we endure since the Mayor got elected.
Rod

I it possible that the council is using this intern to force her out?

quote:

Originally posted by sig sailor:
Sue Helke is a long time friend of mine. I know her to be someone who wants to do things right and is truthful to a fault. Sue will tell the truth even when she knows she shouldn't. Truth and doing things right has no place on the Walled Lake City Council. The Mayor and her gang of thugs could teach Nancy Pelosi how to run a corrupt government. Sue refused to go along with them, so she had to go. Simple as that. It is a shame, Walled Lake is a nice place to live (been here 38 years); except for the corrupt government we endure since the Mayor got elected.
Rod

The school district is a piece of work also. I had a few go-arounds with them when my children went there and not to mention the propensity to throw money around like a drunken sailor on shore leave when it came to facilities and bond issues. It must have really made them sad with John Engler's property tax reform for residential properties making it a little harder to dig their hands in our pockets.

We lived in a adjacent city that sent some of their students to that district. Between that city and the school district it made it easy for us to move away from both.