r/MontereyBay • u/Brave_Tomatillo4796 • 13h ago
Monterey mayoral candidate Malfitano doesn’t know how “public comment” works, subpoenas public commenters: “First Amendment doesn’t protect that.”
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“He can’t keep control of his Chambers.”
“A strong leader would have said, ‘you can’t say that kind of stuff here, sit down. Well, [Tyller] wasn’t doing that, he called them up… They defame me in public. He doesn’t have protection. First Amendment doesn’t protect that. I don’t know if he’s not smart enough to know that or if Esther didn’t do enough research to know that, but there’s that line, and that’s why I had to serve some of these people to say, look, you’ve crossed the line, and now I need answers.”
“Tyller had to be served in a more aggressive fashion. I had to draw the line, people.”