Okc City Council - July 5 - Supporters of Deferral
Channel: DougLoudenback
Date: 2011-07-31

In a heated debate, council members had to come to grips with a council member's (Ed Shadid's) inability to be present at the meeting, notwithstanding assurances by member Pete White and city manager Jim Couch, that his deferral request would be honored based on established practices concerning civility (and, as well, expressions made at the May 31 city council meeting at which council members Marrs, Ryan, and Salyer indicating that deferrals were and would be routinely granted upon the request of a council member). 

That didn't happen on July 5. This video clip features the comments made by Pete White and Skip Kelley, proponents on that day of Shadid's continuance request.