"Rob Truthy Boat Guy" on Facebook has been informing tax payers all the BS that the Town has been engaged in with OUR MONEY! And now HE gets ejected for some flyers puh-lease! Town is in a billion dollar debt with junk rating. They all need to go asap! PS -why did they need to take down camera to livestream Townhall????? What are they hiding????
Oyster Bay town critic removed from board meeting by police | Newsday
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto had police eject a critic from town hall for handing out fliers before a town board meeting began Tuesday morning.
Massapequa resident Robert Ripp had placed fliers critical of a board member on chairs in town hall and handed them out to attendees.
Oyster Bay officials told him to stop, and after a brief conversation Ripp sat down and waited for the meeting to start.
Ripp said he was told he couldn’t hand out fliers without a permit.
The meeting’s start was delayed and the camera that live-streams the meeting was removed from the town hall. Two Nassau County police officers arrived shortly before 11 a.m. and led Ripp outside.
The officers told Ripp he had violated they town’s meeting rules.
One of the officers said, “your pamphlet is solicitation.”
Public Safety Commissioner Justin McCaffrey told the officers that Venditto would not start the meeting until Ripp left.
McCaffrey said Ripp had violated “town decorum.”
Ripp left and the meeting started at about 11:10 a.m.
Resident Bob Freier, who ran for town board last year as a Democrat, said he was “disgusted” by the action.
“They violated his First Amendment rights,” Freier said of Ripp, a frequent critic of town operations. “It’s a public meeting and he should have the right to hand out his information.
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