Tombstone Tea Party

Posted By admin on October 20, 2009

I have had the great pleasure of knowing Mike Carrafa, the owner of Six Gun City in Tombstone, for many years now. As you may, or may not, know, there have been several confrontations, both physical and non, lately between Mr. Carrafa and a number of other businesses in Tombstone. One of these encounters resulted in Mr. Carrafa being attacked. As a result, Mr. Carrafa filed an assault charge against the assailant. For some irrational reason, the town Marshall, Larry Talvy, has refused to file the charges with the County/State. So, Mr. Carrafa decided he would take the complaint to the Tombstone City Council in an effort to have theme FORCE the Marshall to DO HIS JOB (see the complaint here). Mr. Carrafa made the legal choice to video tape his portion of the Tombstone Council meeting on 10/13/2009. You can watch the video here (on our Video page).
While watching the video, you’ll see that Mr. Carrafa is asked to leave the meeting. I’ve done some research into the Arizona Open Meeting Law and the Tombstone Rules of Decorum and I can find no legitimate reason why Mr. Carrafa was ordered, and escorted, from the meeting. As a matter of fact, I see several violations of the Open Meeting Law by the Council, particularly on the part of the presiding member, the Mayor. Although the Mayor claims that there were personal attacks, there were none. Mr. Carrafa starts to speak about the business owned by the Mayor’s wife, but that’s as far as he got. The Mayor has no idea what Mr. Carrafa was going to say. This is one way the City of Tombstone is trying to ignore the rights of it’s citizens and business owners. Sound like something else going on in a much larger scale statewide as well as nationally?
Watch the video, read the complaint, read the Open Meeting Law, and the Tombstone Rules of Decorum and you decide.
Thank you,

—Michael Drawdy

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