Re “Cooper Responds to Blanket Ethics Raps by Greenberg”
For those persons who know the very public persona of Vice Mayor Mehaul O’Leary, a two-pub owner, how do you think he would react to an arguably overheated charge by a neighborhood activist that he committed an ethics violation by not recusing himself from a case?
When the question was put to the vice mayor, he hesitantly answered, “Oh, yes, I have a vague recollection of that.”
And then, characteristically, the boisterous Irishman pinned a jovial exclamation mark onto the tail of his remarks.
“When I finished laughing, I think I deleted it and never gave it a second thought.”
Mr. O’Leary is one of three Council members targeted for alleged ethical violations by an upset resident, Les Greenberg, who has sent steaming emails to City Atty. Carol Schwab demanding action.
Ms. Schwab has not yet answered Mr. Greenberg, although a reply is anticipated any edition.
A City Hall wit, who does not want her name used, said that in the wildly unlikely, million-to-1 scenario that the three Councilmen would be forced to recuse themselves from further involvement in Grace Lutheran Church vs. the 10700 block of Farragut Drive, Mr. Greenberg’s side would have unimpeded sailing to victory.
Of the only two Councilpersons to escape charges by Mr. Greenberg, Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells endorses Mr. Greenberg’s perspective and Jim Clarke said 50 percent of his sympathy was with the church and the other half with the denizens of the 10700 block.
For meticulous mathematicians, this computes, at worst to a Greenberg side victory by a score of 1 to ½.
