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Last night the Louisville Metro Council took up the resolution calling for a vote of no-confidence in the Mayor.
This resolution outlined the scandals at Louisville Metro Animal Services, the many youths sexually abused through the Explorer program, the abuses of overtime, the refusal to be transparent in the facts surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor, and the failure to protect our city when riots broke out.
The resolution documented the fact that our city’s murder rate has nearly doubled and we have now surpassed the record number of homicides in our city, all while still having three and a half months left in the year.
The original Republican resolution had bi-partisan support; it was based in facts that were proven through testimony both in the Metro Council but also in the various courts of law that have dealt with the victims on these scandals.
The original resolution not only stated that the Metro Council had lost confidence in the Mayor, it also asked him to resign. This resolution was non-binding but would have made it clear that it is the opinion of the Metro Council that new leadership was needed to begin the process of healing and restoring our city.
During the debate on our original resolution, Councilman Markus Winkler and several members of the Democrat majority on the Metro Council introduced a weakened amendment. The amendment removed the language that requested the Mayor’s resignation and introduced goals for addressing our issues such as transparency and representation within Metro Government.
With a vote of 14-11 the weaker, amended version passed. I voted no on that amended version.
Following that vote, I had to make the decision to either support the watered-down, amended version, or vote against the entire resolution. After consideration, I decided to vote in favor of the final version of the resolution because the language still expressed the Metro Council’s loss of confidence in Mayor Fischer, and made clear that the lack of transparency and enforcement of our laws have been unacceptable.
It wasn’t what I or my Republican colleagues wanted, but was what we could get given the party makeup of the Council.
The final vote of the resolution’s weaker version was 21-4.
Scott
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