Gavel bashing is having a moment as frustrated city, county and school board officials try to maintain order in unruly times
Mr. Archie defended his gaveling spree, saying it was the only way to deal with a fellow supervisor in their dispute over who was the board’s rightful president. “Saying you’re out of order and hitting the gavel at the same time, he knows I mean business,” said Mr. Archie.
The wooden gavel may be best known as a symbol of the legal profession and a prop for reality show judges. But in these unruly times, the gavel has become an emblem of civic disorder. Footage from local government meetings shows vexed city, county and school board officials bashing their gavels, sometimes so hard they splinter, to enforce silence, parliamentary procedure and civil debate.
The chairman, former National Football League tight end Clint Didier, had lost his patience with Mr. Peck, who had interrupted the county auditor. The auditor, for his part, was alleging a political conspiracy behind a $5,600 bill he got for accidentally backing his car into a coroner’s utility truck.Franklin County, Wash., Commission Chairman Clint Didier, left, bangs his gavel at fellow commissioner Brad Peck, right.“You love that thing, don’t you? Makes you feel important,” said Mr.
In Trumbull County, Ohio, no amount of gaveling has been able to get the meetings of the board of commissioners back on track.
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