Petition in West Covina

West Covina residents could have made up their own City Council Drinking Game if the city still aired its meetings on television. But now that the broadcasts have been pulled from TV and the Internet, the game would be a lot harder. Unless, of course, you snuck booze into the meeting, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t take too long before you were escorted out of the meeting…in handcuffs.

But residents such as Fred Sykes aren’t taking the issue lightly. (Not the lack of drinking game, but the decision to halt that broadcasts of the meetings.)

Sykes has organized a petition and distributed it to about 20 other residents throughout the city. He is hoping that if enough residents sign the petition (he thinks that it will be no problem getting at least 1,000 people) that it will change the council’s decision to pull the plug on the televised meetings.

And just why does he think that the council will listen? “We know that they are politicians, and three of them are due to run in November. That is something that they will consider.”