Fred Keeley Reflects on Threats After Council Vote

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Jan 19, 2024 | All Talk, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

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Fred Keeley Reflects on Threats After Council Vote

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Fresh off a meeting with the person who threatened to kill him over his vote on a council resolution regarding violence in the Middle East, Santa Cruz Mayor, Fred Keeley talks about the necessity of being able to disagree without being disagreeable. While defending his vote and the people’s right to have their say, Keeley talks about the necessity for peaceful disagreement. A half-hour before this interview, Keeley met with the teen who threatened to stab him to death over his vote, and the father, both of whom apologized both verbally, and in a written statement.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.