Ellsworth City Council Considers Banning Public from Comment
Ellsworth City Council Limits Rights of Residents
Ellsworth American - Letter to the Editor - December 18, 2024
Championing Our Constitutional Freedoms - By John Linnehan
In the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, Article 1, First Amendment, it says the following:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Please watch the December 16, 2024, Citizen’s Comments section of the Ellsworth City Council’s monthly meeting and form your own conclusion. The topic I was attempting to address was what I had titled, a simple solution to lower Ellsworth’s excessively high property taxes. Whether you agree or disagree with me about whether our property taxes are too high or not and what my proposed solution was is of secondary importance.
What is of PRIMARY IMPORTANCE to me, and I hope to everyone reading this is that the core foundational, Constitutional rights and freedoms America was founded on is defended, protected and championed still today by We the People.
I encourage ALL Ellsworth residents to join me and attend the January City Council meeting. We the People, as Citizens of Ellsworth, need to exercise our God Given Constitutional rights and freedoms in person. We need to peaceably petition our council. We need to ask our Council to vote for and enact CONSERVATIVE, CONSTITUTIONAL POLICIES WHEN IT COMES TO SPENDING DECISIONS AND MAINTAINING A SMALLER LIMITED GOVERNMENT LIKE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ORIGINALLY INTENDED.
Merry CHRISTmas everyone, God Bless Ellsworth in 2025!
Thank You, John Linnehan, 157 Shore Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605