Husband and Wife on City Council together!?!?!

[RAMORE]

In Florida there is the Sunshine Law which basically means elected officials can not meet or talk or write about things which might come up at meetings. And now I have a husband and wife on council together.

Heres a little background. I was just re-elected to the City Council were I live. This is my 3rd two year term and i'm currently Mayor Pro-tem (vice mayor essentially). The former Mayor has won his seat back and will now be on council with his wife! A few years ago they were on council before they got married (though they had been living together for years) and I didn't think it was a good idea then.

Basically as far as I know since we are a city of less than 5000 people they don't prohibit family from serving together because the job might not have alot of people wanting to do it. However they both had people run against them the wife even had two.

So my question for you guys is should I bring all this up at the first meeting and tell them in the spirit of the law and integrity of the position one of them should step down?

 

[Scarlet spidey]

RAMORE, You may want to bring it up.
I may have to pick your brain later on. I've been toying with the idea of trying out for City Council in 2010.

 

[RAMORE]

Feel free to ask any questions I'm thinking about County Commisioner in 2012. I was suprised to get so many views and only one response

 

[Matt]

The family is clearly fairly well liked if they can win both the mayor's seat and a seat on council despite multiple oppositional factions. There's a good chance you could piss a lot of their supporters off if you call them out and put your own political career at risk. Furthermore, you are asking them to step down with no proof of wrong doing. Unless you have 100 % fullproof evidence that they talked about city business outside of meetings, I think it would be unwise to ask either to resign inspite of the will of the voters electing them.