Mayor Donna Deegan’s staff compiled a list of critical talking points about City Council President Ron Salem that said he “definitely has an agenda” in his questioning of the process Deegan used to remove Confederate statues and that Salem “talks about trust … well we’ve lost our trust in him.”
Salem said it was disturbing to learn about the list of talking points that someone hand-delivered to him Wednesday, a day before City Council had a special meeting to ask General Counsel Michael Fackler about his legal opinion on Deegan’s authority to direct the removal of two statues from the monument in Springfield Park.
“Since the beginning of this process my colleagues and I have been attacked by the administration for simply doing our job,” Salem said. “This is just the latest example.”
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