Do We Call This Leadership?

What a few weeks for the Vienna Town Council! First, their Historic Chairman blows a gasket and then the Council proposes to ban legal video taping and legal appeals. While we opined on the subject here, the Mayor was publicly questioned about these events on December 19th and here is the video:

The Mayor is not correct. The Town maintained audio is not the official minutes, but who cares about such a silly legalism? The Mayor just puts her head in the sand and hopes the District and Steve Bukont (Bukont house photo 1, 2, 3) will just go away. The questioning continues:

First she says the Council did not want to ban 'anything'. Fifteen seconds later she floats some inane story about reading a newspaper article that said it was fine to ban video. Why did she want to ban the video that she says she did not want to ban? Apparently cameras intimidate people who want to speak. Say what? Last we checked Vienna was the only jurisdiction in Fairfax County that refused to put their meetings on cable TV. Bottom line, we fully expect the video camera to intimidate dishonest people. The questioning continues:

Mayor Seeman, the Town tape you refer to is NOT the official minutes. You know it and we know it. Perhaps you might want to correct yourself. Sure does seem like a whole bunch of legal parsing doesn't it? Once again, here are the videos Mayor Seeman refused to watch:

Mayor Seeman knows full well these are the exact verbatim videos of the meeting in question. Any attempt to say the videos were altered is easily disproved by listening to the audio maintained by the Town. The Mayor can't see perfect correlation from the audio on this site and her Town tape? Nice spin Mayor.