Beleaguered Altadena Town Councilman Herbert Simmons has a rather lawyerly piece in the PWeekly today, wherein we learn:

• After a 30-year gap, he has recently begun reciting the Pledge of Allegiance again;
• The town council apparently shouldn't hold its members to account (somebody probably should, but not the council);
• Despite the closed meeting of August (which Simmons attended), the establishment of an investigative committee that presented charges against him (which he received), and the council planning to have a closed meeting to hear charges against him and have him offer a defense, there has been no "due process";
• that a group that has no money and no power other than to offer advice to the board of supervisors is a "legislative body;"
• And some wonderful coded phrases, like "Is it a clan of people with special interests representing the few?"  Good one, that.  Not incendiary at all.  Bravo, Weekly!