Members of the Missoula, MT City Council were caught sending messages to each other via email during Monday night's meeting, KPAX reported. This may have been going on for some time.
"When you're discussing an amendment that you're going to bring to the floor on e-mail this is wrong, this is not involving the public in the process of debate and it is not involving me as an elected official in process of debate and here lies the problem," Council member Jon Wilkins said.
"I think all of us have participated in that so it's a bit like the pot calling the kennel (sic) black here...further more I'd like to see if we can move beyond this and talk about police instead of politics," Council member Stacy Rye said.
I do not know what the Montana Open Meeting laws would state, but it is clear to me that this would not be legal in my home state of Massachusetts. Fortunately, Council President Ed Childers clarified the rules for the meeting: no emailing, no whispering, no hand signals, no caucusing and no leaving to go to the bathroom during the session.
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