"I Want My 19 Seconds" - James Hartline's Battle For Free Speech with America's Most Corrupt Mayor
"I Want My 19 Seconds" - James Hartline's Battle For Free Speech with America's Most Corrupt Mayor In 2009, La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid issued a political hit against La Mesa city councilwoman Ruth Sterling because of her stand against Madrid's chronic corruption and public alcoholic episodes. Madrid attempted to bring in a "stacked" deck of homosexual speakers to attack Councilwoman Sterling, who is a Christian Conservative, during public comment. Madrid had attempted to use the council meeting to personally belittle and degrade Sterling by unethically bringing in numerous homosexual activists to celebrate the San Diego gay pride parade, a non-La Mesa city event. He did this by using Councilwoman Sterling's honorable and humbling public renouncement of her previously issued letter of support for the San Diego Gay Pride events. Councilwoman Sterling had admitted that she did not know at the time the letter of support had been requested by gay pride acti...