Jonathan Molinatto, the tech-savvy City Council member from College Park’s District 1, often gets understandably frustrated as council debate drags on throughout the night.
But while his older colleagues might go outside to vent, or just roll their eyes and slump in their seats, Molinatto takes his exasperation to Twitter.
“let’s bring back punching-in-the-face as an acceptable rebuttal to an ignorant statement,” he wrote at around 10 p.m., after multiple “amendments to the amendment” on council agenda items.
But that wasn’t his first grumpy tweet of the evening.
Molinatto had already criticized his fellow council members for casting oral votes in imperfect unison.
“let’s talk about voting in opposition when the mayor calls for opposers to say, ‘nay.’ do it when he asks, people! it’s not hard! idiots!!” he wrote of the people who were at that moment sitting just a few feet away at the same table.
“As elected officials, we should have a sense of humor about ourselves as we do stupid things,” Molinatto said in an interview during a break in the council meeting.
Luckily, other council members understand Molinatto’s wit.
“Jonathan has a very wry sense of humor, and if I didn’t know that I might be offended,” said District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook.
“My wife told me I should stop doing that,” Molinatto said.