Taking English Only Downtown

By Kleinheider Posted on January 6, 2009 at 4:56 pm

Nate Rau reports from the debate amongst fellow conservatives on English Only:

Crafton argued that the state law didn’t explicitly state local governments must do their business in English. He also said the charter amendment proposal should be boiled down to whether a voter believes all government business should be done in English.

“Obviously, I consider what Nashville English First has done, through lawsuits and multiple petitions, that we’ve won a victory making sure people can go out and vote so the community can have this dialogue.”

Davis asked the first question during the open forum, and wondered if Metro wouldn’t be on a slippery slope where future government communications could be done in other languages were the proposal not to pass.

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