“The City Councilmembers serve for a term of four (4) years and are elected at large. The City Councilmembers select one of their members to serve as Mayor and this office rotates among the members of Council on their yearly reorganization which occurs in April.”

And here’s the city’s Code of Conduct for elected and appointed city officials, which describes the limits on City Council interactions with city staff. Note especially Policy 1: “City officials shall deal with the administrative service solely through the City Manager or his/her designee.”

Policy 1.1 says that elected city officials “shall not direct” city employees. Policy 1.2 forbids elected city officials from attempting to influence the way city employees do their jobs.

Horvath has disrespected her office.

I didn’t even realize it was on a rotation. That makes Miss Horvath’s proclamation that the First Amendment is dead in West Hollywood even less important.

To put that a little differently, Lindsey Horvath was putting on a piece of empty performance to spread her name around in the news. She didn’t instruct city staff to do anything. She’s pretending.

In any event, it’s all just theatre. It isn’t likely Trump is going to spend much time in that city, if at all. The gain just isn’t there for him. Someplace like Simi Valley would be rather a lot more receptive.