This comes from a new commenter, who calls himself PartickinCary:
While the analysis of the ADA is interesting (though, being more than passably familiar with it – I should say incomplete…the ADA doesn’t guarantee rights to elected officials; the only reason it is raised here is that the county board referred to is as a review standard), it nevertheless is moot.
The only way you get to a vote is if the illness requirement has been met.
If there’s no “illness” – ADA ‘disability’ or not – then you don’t even vote on whether the board member can participate.
So it seems that Mr. Walkup has spent a lot of ink in support of what is and is not an ADA ‘disability’, but misses the point that even if there is a ‘disability’ the board can, and in this case did, vote to disallow participation.
This is not a legal issue.
This is a political issue.
And politics is not a pillow fight.
Veterans like Mr. Hammerand do, or should, know this.
Joe Gotemoller was not supported by John Hammerand for County Board Chairman. Gottemoller cast the deciding vote not to allow Hammerand to participate in the Board meeting by telephone.
Mr. Hammerand’s winter location has been known for years; nothing new to see.
And it has always been a political liability.
Until now, nobody bothered to take advantage of that liability to inflict pain.
I believe that this paradigm changed in the past 18 months as Mr. Hammerand found himself in need of choosing a faction, and ended up choosing the faction that became the minority.
I suspect that the minority will continue to find themselves marginalized as the wax holding the feathers is melted off.
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