Please make a note: Effective immediately, David Williams is my dude.
You see, David Williams is an 11-year-old who attended a recent Dallas City Council meeting. After a little trouble finding the podium, he asked the council members a concise, direct question about an important issue. (“What is an alternative for the teachers to keep the schools safe in [the Dallas school district] without having to bring dangerous weapons to school?”) If that was all he did during the meeting — hell, during the year — he’d already have most of us trumped in the old civic duty department.
But then, while he was waiting for an answer to his question, and while other constituents were taking the podium to voice their concerns, David Williams noticed that the council members were up walking around, and seemingly not paying attention. So he walked back up to the microphone and said this:
“Do you feel it is acceptable for city council members to be up and walking around while constituents are addressing them?”
Yes. YES. Do you see this, people? Our representatives in Washington blew out of town early instead of trying to figure out how to deal with potentially dangerous automatic budget cuts, and most of us did nothing more than grumble about it at the dinner table. David Williams saw something he was concerned about, put on a sweet-as-hell bolo tie, got his mom to drive him to a city council meeting, and spoke truth to power in the most polite, devastating way imaginable.
I repeat: My dude.
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When he lists his role models he puts “Undertaker” before his mom. That is classic.
Great kid, great mom, local news everywhere sucks balls.
Texas……..
I’m surprised the rest of the audience didn’t just go “OOHHHHHHHHHHHH”.
“Yes. YES. Do you see this, people? Our representatives in Washington blew out of town early instead of trying to figure out how to deal with potentially dangerous automatic budget cuts, and most of us did nothing more than grumble about it at the dinner table.”
Yeah, the kid is amazing! And Uproxx could be, too if they reported the truth. The truth is, the President had a month to deal with sequestration and waited until Friday, the day after the due date, to make an audience with Congress.
I like that you are free to say what you think.
…by creating a new account every time.
Your argument is invalid. This isn’t an article about sequestration, it was about a young boy taking action with small mention of the greater problems our country has.
If you think everything is the President’s fault, try turning off FOX NEWS for 5 minutes and think for yourself.
Wait so the kid called out the president or the council? I’m lost.
If you’re coming to UProxx for accurate political news, then you’ve got bigger issues. Come for the tits, stay for the snarkiness.
He recited a memorized question. Momma, or someone, sent him up there to do that.
Someone really should point out that a constituent is a voter. I’m not doing so, but someone should.
The sequester isn’t a budget cut. It just decreases the absurd amount of increased spending that the hacks on the Hill and in the White House are trying to foist on us. It’s a drop in the damn bucket compared to the insane spending we’ve seen over the last two presidencies. Stop buying into the Obama rhetoric that the sequester is the end of the world (never mind the fact that he proposed it in the first place) and recognize it for what it is: a smokescreen.
Ugh, shut up all of you. Just watch the videos. All the back and forth bullshit makes me wish this was a Chinese comment board:
“I agree with the glorious leader!”
- “me too!”
- “me too!”
Lots of HOT POLITICS TAKES in the comments here, good looking out everybody
It should be noted that David Williams did this in the OCP building from Robocop.
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The councilman has only one suit?
I gather that all of the story took place in one day, the city council meeting, the interview with the councilman, and the interview with the kid and his mom.
Kudos to the kid for doing this (even if he may or may not have had help with the questions).
But on a more serious note; did no one think to try to help his mom with her hair before she went on TV?