Rangel also took to Twitter to comment on the amendment's tone. "Is that really what government is about? Is it the job of an elected official to use his official position to go on personal tirades and issue attacks against people?" "It says more about them than it says about me," she added, according to the Post. Rangel said someone emailed her the video from the commission's meeting. Rangel, who was frequently critical of the commission during her time at Florida Today, described the resolution as "telling people to go back to where you came from and you can't say anything about America because you were born in a different country." "Rangel is known as invariably partisan as she has a reputation in the community for regularly attacking only one side of the aisle." "I supported the underlying resolution because Rangel's job should have been to report the news, not to contort it to fit a recurring, prejudiced, agenda," he said. Lober defended the resolution in an email to Newsweek on Monday night. They named it the "Resolution honoring Florida Today Reporter Isadora Rangel," and it passed 5 to 0. The commission even offered to frame the amendment for Rangel. politics and criticizing numerous elected officials," he said. Rangel never once let the fact that she's forbidden from voting in this county deter her from commenting on. "Whereas throughout her employment with Florida Today, Ms. And whereas her liberal views will be sorely missed by the Brevard Democrats alike."Ĭommissioner Bryan Lober also took a swipe at Rangel during the meeting. Tobia continued: "Whereas her dedication to Brevard is exemplified by her accepting a position with the Miami Herald a mere three years after coming here. "Whereas because of her eloquent prose the circulation of Florida Today dropped only 16 percent during her tenure," commissioner John Tobia said during the commission meeting on February 9, according to the Post. This photo taken on Janushows a woman typing on the keyboard of her laptop computer in Beijing.
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