{"id":7824,"date":"2017-11-01T01:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2841098&amp;preview_id=2841098"},"modified":"2017-11-01T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T01:12:31","slug":"you-idiot-cursing-councilman-goes-on-tirade-against-marijuana-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/you-idiot-cursing-councilman-goes-on-tirade-against-marijuana-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou idiot!\u201d: Cursing councilman goes on tirade against marijuana advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/you-idiot-cursing-councilman-goes-on-tirade-against-marijuana-advocates\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Oct 31, 2017, 2:47 pm \u2022 Updated: Oct 31, 2017, 4:19 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Benjy Egel<\/strong>, <em> The Sacramento Bee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor pro tem Tony Hesch cursed out a resident last week during a City Council meeting for interrupting him during a debate on keeping some marijuana policies under local control in Colfax, California.<\/p>\n<p>Hesch referred to pro-marijuana advocates as \u201cpeople who have wasted our freaking time\u201d over the last three years. He and Mayor Steve Harvey repeatedly called for order as audience members objected to that characterization. When Mark Younggren continued to question the council, Hesch flew into a rage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the one speaking, you idiot!\u201d Hesch yelled, slamming his fist onto a table. \u201cYou shut the (expletive) up when somebody\u2019s talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hesch doubled down on his words as other Colfax City Council representatives attempted to defuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to settle down,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s just plain ridiculous, childish, unbelievable activities by you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hesch voted in favor of the ordinance regulating cannabis growth, cultivation, delivery and sales at the local level\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article167882777.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in anticipation of<\/a>\u00a0statewide legalization early next year. A Colfax resident who ran the town\u2019s lone dispensary before its 2012 closure had his business license renewed at the previous council meeting despite Hesch and Harvey\u2019s opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Hesch and Younggren had previously sparred over the issue, but Wednesday\u2019s meeting marked a new level of confrontation,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2017\/10\/26\/colfax-city-council-profanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Younggren told CBS13<\/a>. The mayor pro tem has served on the Colfax City Council since 2012, when he was appointed to fill a vacant position. Earlier this year, he announced plans to step down from the council, but then reversed his decision, according to a report in the Colfax Record.<\/p>\n<p>As Wednesday\u2019s meeting returned to order, Hesch fired one more shot at Younggren and others interested in opening dispensaries in Colfax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you\u2019re doing is wanting to make money,\u201d Hesch said. \u201cYou don\u2019t give a damn about anybody in this community, you just want to make money. You should be ashamed of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/\">The Sacramento Bee<\/a> (Sacramento, Calif.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Mayor pro tem Tony Hesch cursed out a resident last week during a City Council meeting for interrupting him during a debate on keeping some marijuana policies under local control in Colfax, California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,6813,77,5667,9,6833,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2628,6818,2655,5673,6835,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}