Setting the Record Straight

West Main Street, Salisbury, MD

Yesterday we got a comment from someone who seemed to have intimate knowledge of the City Administrator Julia Glanz wedding. We didn't publish the comment because the rest of it contain language we reject, we did take issue with something they said about the wedding. They claimed no street was blocked off for the wedding, however, as you can see from the picture, the chairs are in the middle of the street. There are also businesses all around the intersection where the wedding took place, when the commenter said there weren't any businesses right there.

These two images show clearly the entire street is brick at this point, a leftover from the brilliant person who made it a plaza sometime in the seventies or eighties and then turned it back into a drivable road.

If this was one of the Glanzs this is the reason we didn't post your comment because it was untrue. Why do officials in this area lie to the public in order to hide their activities? The road being closed for a short ceremony probably wouldn't be a big deal but lying about it is a huge deal. This is the reason why we posted these pictures to set this record straight.

Some comments from yesterday expressed upset about the road being closed and worried city services were used to clean up the mess afterwards. As taxpayers, this is a valid complaint because most citizens, unless friends with city hall don't have the luxury of being able to have our weddings anywhere we want without any regard to other people's situations.

If you didn't want the wedding to be public then why have it in the middle of the street. If you didn't want people to see the images don't post them on Facebook. If you don't want comments then don't be a city official. We're amazed at the protest about the post because we didn't get the same kinds of protests when we posted John Cannon's wedding picture a few months back in a derogatory article about his relationship with Sheriff Mike Lewis (who officiated his wedding at Headquarters Live).

If you're a pubic official using a public street for your wedding then chances are eventually some press will cover your wedding. The problem here it is Salisbury News who covered the Glanz wedding which for some reason pisses city hall off even though we wrote nothing negative in the post, we just announced it like any other media in town.