Parsippany welcomes another lawsuit; Council President Valori violates First Amendment Rights of Public Speaker – Parsippany Focus
PARSIPPANY Council President Louis Valori continued tointerrupt Bill Brennan during a public session regarding the Township Budget on Thursday, June 8.
Mr. Valori as well as Township Attorney John Inglesino keptinterrupting Mr. Brennan during his comments regarding the budget, and how Inglesino and Mayor James Barberio are a pair of criminals. He contents there is a Criminal Conspiracy going on.
Mr. Brennan said Your are violating my constitutional right tofree speech, you dont like the content of my speech, and you are calling me names, you areallegedly that Iam an embarrassment. Yes, you said I should behave myself. This is the third time youinterrupted me. You know what, I am speaking my mind in an open public forum. Now you are passing notes back and forth and interrupting me. May I have my three minutes? May I have my three minutes? So you are telling me that I dont get my three minutes? You were able to interrupt me the whole time. I didnt get to finish what I had to say. I am not putting the mic down. I insist that if I violated a law, I would be charged. I have three minutes. Iam not goingvoluntarily I am not disrupting the meeting. I wasdisrupted the three minutes which I was given to speak. I was given three minutes to speak. Am I under arrest? Yes, and I want to go on the record before I leave that I did not get my three minutes, I was interruptedrepeatedly. I will take this up in a Civil Suit with this municipality.
Mr. Brennan was escorted from the Council Chambers by two Parsippany Police Officers that were on duty during the Council Meeting.
Requests for comments from Mayor James Barberio, Council President Louis Valori, Council Vice President Robert Peluso and Councilman Carifi and dePierro went unanswered.
Editors Note: The video is only a segment where Brennan speaks. The complete video of the Council Meeting of Thursday, June 7 can be seen by clicking here.
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Parsippany welcomes another lawsuit; Council President Valori violates First Amendment Rights of Public Speaker - Parsippany Focus
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