Canton Mayor Dr. William Truly threw a Canton School Board member out of a Board of Aldermen meeting this week for merely attending the public meeting.
Three members of the Canton Public School Board attended the Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday. Ms. Rainey was recently elected to the School Board. She defeated Hosea Anderson, the brother of CMU Commissioner Cleve Anderson. Mayor Truly took exception to the presence of Courtney Rainey and ordered the police and Fire Chief to escort her from the public meeting.
Kingfish note: Such an action would seem to violate the Open Meetings Act. Stay tuned as this is probably not the last time we have heard about this episode.
This is also not the first time Mayor Truly has pulled one of these stunts when it comes to public meetings. He ordered one man at a Board meeting several years ago to turn off his videocamera when he dared to videotape the meeting even though the law authorizes citizens to record public meetings.
Word came to Kingfish after this post was published that the Mayor claimed the three school board members constituted a quorum and thus violated the Open Meetings Act. You can't make this up.
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Hopefully the good Mayor can retain Mr. Bellinder as his personal counsel. He likes getting himself into things of this matter...rogue mayors, et al.
Ahh Canton, the Pelahatchie of Madison County.
Truly is a genius who is playing the system. He knows the following:
1. He's wrong.
2. Nobody will do anything about it.
3. If they tried to do something about it, he will scream racism.
It's the way that he and the Blackmons play ball. Gloat when you are winning and cry racism when you are losing. It's proven to be successful.
And you wonder why CMU is a mess......
Tom Hood and the Ethics Commission is a joke and Truly knows it. Ed told him he could take this action because he would “handle” Tom Hood and any blowback.
Is it legal to video a board meeting?
It's not William Truly, Mayor. It's William Truly, Village Big Man. And you better not forget it, either.
When Truly looks back on this term as Mayor he will realize quickly that there are some people you don’t play with. Truly you have pissed of some powerful and influential people who are going to make your time as Mayor hell.
I just can't understand how people are smart enough to get elected and dumb enough to f__k up a good deal (insurance, salary, car, PERS) so bad.
This is not Truly's first rodeo. He and Queen Alice Scott and a few others rotate this position and serve at the behest of the Blackmons. Regardless of which of these clowns is in office, they all know if any stink is raised, the Clarion Ledger will shout RACISM for a week on the front page, here comes the ACLU and the fallout will be painful. So, why bother?
Truly's main job is handing out blue placards for rear-view mirrors. The Blackmons remain in the cat-bird-seat.
Who cares about this trash. Is there not anything better to talk about. This Canton crap is probably being feed to Kingfish by someone who pays him to print this garbage. Let's move on to something more important than canton.
@9:12pm On the contrary. It's stories like this one that are micro examples of circumstances all of Mississippi. Rogue administrators who think they have little fiefdoms, and no one in charge at the top of State government due to incompetence, inexperience, or just being plain in on the corruption. Not one truly qualified leader has emerged in State government. Otherwise, there would be a lot of politicians in jail, the state flag would have been redesigned to be inclusive of all of Mississippians, infrastructure would be sound and fully funded for regularly scheduled maintenance, and women wouldn't have second class standing.
9:12; How can you claim the corruption in Canton government is insignificant? It's a stone's throw from the state capitol, reflects city governments all over this state and reminds us what it means to gain control of a feedbag and purse-strings. It's where every community in this state is headed. I wish you had included your short-list of important things. But, you didn't, did you?
@9:17am Well said! If Stacey Pickering, Michael Guest or Jim Hood would do their jobs this would not be happening, BUT they are more concerned about upsetting the Blackmons than actually solving the criminal acts being committed in Canton. Let’s come together and vote these 3 bozos out of Office and elect leaders with a backbone.
People don’t understand small town corruption and abuse of power! The Mayor controls the chief of police, the city judge, the city clerk, the city attorney! IF say a Mayor wanted to run a drug ring in Canton or any other small town he could, because all of those appointed officials report to the Mayor. Crime is out of control in Canton and the drugs flowing into Gluckstadt and Madison come from Canton! The police chief knows who to bust, BUT if the Mayor tells the chief of police to leave certain people alone then that’s what the chief does. Just like if the Mayor tells the chief of police to remove a citizen or school board member from HIS meeting then that’s what the chief of police does! No questions asked. FBI needs to pay attention to this tip I’m providing free of charge.
Truly is running a profitable business from city hall. Eric Gilkey is his lieutenant. Being Mayor pays big $$$. Being Mayor is just a front for the real operation going on.
Crystal meth is cooked in what’s called a safe zone in Canton. This is the area the chief of police is to stay away from. After it’s cooked it’s loaded in a car that the chief is told not to pull over. Car heads south to the more affluent areas of Madison County where the drugs are distributed. Money then flows back to the Mayor through his lieutenants. Of course this is only a fiction narrative and it’s surely not going on in Canton. BUT what if it was? Would anyone care?
What about the harmless mural the mayor wants replaced by something a little more racist? Has that story gone away? Well, probably.
Suddenly Sydney Runnels is not looking so unpalatable to old time Cantonians, both black and white. You people did this to yourselves.
What recourse is there for the fellow who was thrown out of the meeting simply because he attended? Surely this sort of thing cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
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