Reply #46: And why is instituting a rule that when she's present in the chamber

[XemaSab]

speakers will refrain from using the podium not acceptable?

I understand the subtle power dynamics here, but spending a brazilian dollars of city money that could be used to:

*Hire more mental health workers
*Provide shelters for the homeless
*Feed the hungry
*Hire more cops
*Fix some potholes so that bicyclists and people on motorcycles are safer
*Make sure public toilets are clean and safe
*Give all the firefighters in the city a raise
*HIV/AIDS prevention
*Housing grants for city employees

I could probably think of 10 or 20 other things that the money could go towards, some of which could save lives and all of which would improve quality of life for a large number of people in the City...

But instead we're using the money to strike a symbolic BLOW... sort of like putting the Ten Commandments in the courthouse.