Surprisingly or not, the Columbus City Council, apparently with the advice and consent of the City Attorney’s Office, publicly decreed at its Monday, March 6, 2023 meeting that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution does not apply to Columbus residents especially any who dares to speak honestly and openly about any element of the City itself. This is obviously not a problem for mayor, City Councilors, Council’s Chief of Staff, and major division heads.
On one hand, it is curious because City Attorney Klein likes to struggle very publicly and politically with the alternatively ignorant of and anti-Constitutional state Attorney General David Yost and Secretary of State Frank LaRose, all of whom aspire to higher office. LaRose just returned from hobnobbing with 2020 election deniers at the Trumpist CPAC meeting. These two are busy suppressing voting and many other legal rights in Ohio.