HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetter-of-Support-2-AB31551600 Sacramento Inn Way, Suite 232 Sacramento, CA 95815 916-467-8878 cbcc@calbcc.org
June 15, 2020
Dear Mayor Harmon,
We are stunned and angry about your online post this morning where you in effect make
climate change a condition for racial justice in America!
It is clear why. You put a building code ordinance on the council agenda tomorrow one that you
have an obvious political interest in passing. Perhaps your reelection in November has shorted -
out your judgment.
Therefore you have combined the moral cry of outrage Black Lives Matters with a ban on
natural gas as “interconnected” with racial justice! How dare you?
This is a cheap political trick that betrays your values and sensitivities as Mayor of the City of
San Luis Obispo. And will not go unchallenged.
No wonder the council is meeting at the inconvenient time of 3PM in city hall where the public
is not allowed to enter.
You can be assured that without those restrictions hundreds of your “constituents” would be at
city hall in protest.
You have only delayed the inevitable. Ordinances require a second reading at a subsequent
public council meeting.
Next time there will be no hiding behind Stay-In-Place. You must face in person those whose
principles you have trivialized, allowing your colleagues the opportunity to disassociate from
your statement, and apologize.
Sincerely,
Jay King
President & CEO
California Black Chamber of Commerce