And those who didn't vote against got to watch it too, not to mention anyone else in attandance who wasn't voting.
What ever happened to the mentality of not being a perpetual victim and overcoming one's circumstances?
That city council held power over him, and used it to his detriment; did you read the article?
He WAS a victim—of petty, power-mad city council members. Now, he is a victim no longer, they have no further power to hurt him.
Hopefully his action will be one which has reverberations in town and city councils across the nation, where incompetent little Napoleons misuse the power to both enrich and make poor every single day.