The shift in focus on proclamations she mentions here was to avoid having to deal with the kind of pushback that happened in Porterville in 2013 and still divides the City.

She designed it to exclude LGBT people from Visalia City Hall, now it’s the height of audacity to claim it was was the other way around.

Plainly she is still afraid, especially of Dennis Townsend, who singlehandedly destroyed whatever goodwill and economic development would have come to Porterville after 5 years of anti-lgbt actions on Porterville’s Council already by then that he was front and center in supporting every single time. And there were lots and lots of times.

It’s the basis of these extended and very public and very vocal hate-capades that built the base that elevated him, with no other political experience, to BoS.

And now Shuklian, having denied Visalia the same economic benefits Townsend denied Porterville, they act in cahoots to deny basic humanity and access to government functions to LGBT people to this very day, and then she tries to spin it as a positive and she allows him to remain silent instead of making him go on the record.

It is NOT a positive, it’s a major negative, and shame on Shuklian for not moving things forward for her own constituents instead of feeling that there is nothing to be gained from a less than 5-0 vote.

The only thing she is helping is her ego. No one else benefits from her helping haters continue to hate and continue to block bringing Tulare County into the 20th Century (not a typo).