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Menlo Park: No charter city ballot measure, council decides

Original post made on Aug 16, 2018

The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously at an Aug. 13 emergency meeting to reverse its earlier position in support of placing a charter city measure on the November ballot. If approved by voters, the measure would have converted Menlo Park to a charter city, and given it more flexibility in the areas of elections and term limits.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 4:39 PM

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Posted by Tad Cook
a resident of another community
on Aug 16, 2018 at 2:20 am

This article shows a common misunderstanding regarding protected classes.

Nobody is "in" a protected class. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 defines protected classes as race, color, national origin, religion or sex.

So it outlaws discrimination based upon those protected classes, or classifications, but does not protect any particular group in favor of any other.

The confusion probably arises because many people think of classes as groups of people, such as Middle Class, Working Class, etc.

But in this context, nobody is protected more than any other.

So for instance, religion is a protected class, but Baptists have equal rights compared to Mormons, Hindus, Muslims or anyone else. Equal protection under the law is guaranteed by our constitution.

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