{"id":16044,"date":"2022-10-27T23:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T03:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=16044"},"modified":"2022-10-27T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T03:46:57","slug":"council-informed-about-presleys-conspiracy-theory-filled-social-media-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=16044","title":{"rendered":"Council Informed about Presley\u2019s Conspiracy Theory Filled Social Media in Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the appointment by the Montgomery County Council of Amy Presley as an interim Planning Board Member, I reported here about her right-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=16038\">conspiracy theory filled Facebook posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out that the Council was informed about them in advance through a public submission. Not only that, but Council Executive Director Marlene Michaelson wrote to a resident:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be checking the social media comments of those the Council chooses to interview so they will have that as background for their decisions<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Council could offer a number of rationales for appointing her. They had advanced only three non-Democrats to the interview stage and needed to appoint at least two of them on a Board of five members. It turned out one candidate lives out of town and is ineligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except these excuses don\u2019t wash. They could have appointed just three members total and still had a quorum for Board business. Alternatively, they could\u2019ve gone back to the pool and done more interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, after adjourning to a private closed session, the Council appointed someone who is part of the \u201cbut her emails\u201d crowd and gives credence to coronavirus conspiracy theories among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the appointment by the Montgomery County Council of Amy Presley as an interim Planning Board Member, I reported here about her right-wing conspiracy theory filled Facebook posts. Turns out that the Council was informed about them in advance through a public submission. Not only that, but Council Executive Director Marlene Michaelson wrote to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=16044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Council Informed about Presley\u2019s Conspiracy Theory Filled Social Media in Advance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2389],"tags":[2559],"class_list":["post-16044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montgomery-county-planning-board","tag-amy-presley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-4aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16045,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions\/16045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}