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due to
direct and indirect threats
inappropriate comments we will not be
doing the pledge of allegiance during
town of silverton board of trustee
meetings
but it's just been done for a long time
we all took an oath
and we as a board collectively decided
it would be done
uh this is not up for discussion at this
moment
oh man sparks flying at a town meeting
in colorado
after the mayor out of nowhere scrapped
the pledge of allegiance
board members and residents including
our next guest standing up for their
country ignoring
him here now three of those proud
americans who defied the mayor at that
meeting molly barella
jim harper and carrie metzler good
morning to all of you
good morning molly i think you're the
one we just saw in that clip who was
giving it back to the mayor saying hey
what what are you doing you can't do
that uh
he didn't have a good answer for you did
he
well we are governed under title 31 in
the state of colorado
and we are a weak mayorial system with a
statutory community
so no it was not the right answer and
i feel that we need to start changing
that narrative
in order for all of us to come together
and to kind of heal our community
we need to we need to figure out
how to do so yeah and whether through
the you know
the pledge of allegiance which is more
patriotic than anything
um i feel that's the right way to move
forward
if ford collectively decides to not move
forward using the pledge of allegiance
then so be it but it has to be a
decision of
everyone and we do need to heal our
community after this
it's caused a major risk that was
already i bet it did
because because jim because jim he made
this
unilateral decision he didn't consult
anybody that
that you guys knew of but he was talking
about how he suspended it due to direct
and indirect
threats from maybe anonymous people do
we know
anything about that stuff because i was
reading online some people wondered is
he just making that up
that's a that's a great question stephen
thank you so much and good morning
um uh to our recollection to our
knowledge we
do not know of any uh threats
uh whatsoever at that time during that
meeting yeah
and so when he said there was no pledge
there was
you know suddenly you know those were
fighting words in that room jim weren't
they
well they uh they weren't words that a
lot of people want to hear
yeah no kidding and carrie you make the
point that
you stand for the pledge to stand for
your father
who fought for this country right yes
for my father and all
others that fought to give us the right
to stand for the pledge
yeah and so carrie since this happened
i'm sure the whole town is buzzing about
it what's going to happen at the next
meeting
i do not know yeah
molly what do you think is going on with
this mayor
i'm not sure what his motives are
i know that we have a wonderful staff at
the
town of silverton and they
no matter how much emotion this invoked
in americans and reaching out to us
across the board
i i want to please remember that our
staff did not make these decisions
and we have an amazing staff and they
don't need to be um
berated we know social media changes the
narrative of a lot of things
um and we need to really focus on
our community coming together again and
as to the mayor's motives
maybe one day we'll learn but right now
we don't know yep
indeed well there are a lot of things we
don't know that's why we call the three
of you out
molly and jim and carrie thank you very
much for joining us from colorado today
all right good to meet you