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Angered by what he claimed was an attempt to stifle his speaking privileges, Walsh embarked on a one-man crusade to block discussion of council business. Using privileges granted to all councillors under the city charter, the third-term councillor postponed action on no less than 11 council orders...
...have to yell a little louder to the mayor than in the past in order to be heard," Walsh says, discussing the charter-right incident. "I think I made my point," he adds...
...They are not at all justified. We have set out our policy in the Freedom Charter. That policy ought to satisfy everybody that we don't mean to dominate anybody...
...marks 500 years since Columbus came to America, so we'd like to see a revival of Harvard's initial commitment to the education of Indians," Begay says in reference to the original Harvard College charter, which called for the education of "English and Indian youths...
Both Wolf and Reeves also issued apologies to Walsh, but the conservative councillor refused to withdraw most of his "charter-right" requests. The charter-right is a parliamentary rule which allows council members to delay action on items of business for one week...