The Stockton City Council is scheduled to decide today whether one of its members flipped an obscene hand gesture at someone in the audience during a January meeting or was merely using his middle finger to rub the corner of his mouth.
If the answer is the former, it will likely result in a vote to censure Councilmember Brando Villapudua. He is alleged to have violated rules regarding conduct and decorum
Censure is meant to embarrass a member through a public shaming by his or her peers. Beyond that, a censure doesn’t do much because it does not typically result in any other penalties or removal…