According to the Brown Act, the City Council may not conduct council business without a quorum of the city council. Fitzmaurice's thin-skinned walkout removed that quorum. Rotkin was wrong to allow Norse to continue to speak when there was no quorum.

Norse is not asking to speak twice. He is asking for what every OTHER speaker got, 3 minutes to speak to a quorum of the City Council.

Does simply using a foreign accent mean a person is a racist?

No! It has to be coupled with the intent to defame, to deny, or to belittle an entire race of people. Norse's Y Swami Y "wise" man routine did not do this. Simply using an accent does not do that.

Robin Williams accepted a lifetime achievement from the Golden Globes the other night. In his acceptance speech, he used about four different accents. No one called him a racist. Nor should they have. They cheered and applauded him.

Fitzmaurice once walked out on Norse calling him anti-catholic. He wasn't. Fitzmaurice was totally full of shit.

People, this is yet another smear job of an activist so that people are distracted from his message and he has to spend time defending himself from a non-issue.