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At meeting, critic rebukes councilman while past opponent only watches from the audience.
Jump to full article: Glendale (CA) News-Press, 2008-08-21
Author: Jason Wells
Intro: The ongoing controversy surrounding Councilman Dave Weaver's alleged comments about Armenian smokers in a June 26 Pasadena Weekly article appeared Tuesday to have fizzled.
Only one speaker at the City Council meeting, Vache Mangassarian -- a staunch Weaver critic -- returned to berate the councilman over the article despite expectations in the past week that a larger contingent of critics would take to the speaker's podium at the meeting.
Critics, including representatives for the Armenian National Committee-Glendale Chapter, maintained their calls for Weaver to resign, issue a full apology or for his colleagues to censure him based on assertions in the Pasadena Weekly article that Weaver had tied opposition to the city's coming anti-smoking ordinance to Glendale's "substantial and politically influential Armenian community."
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