Las Cruces City Councilor Jose Frietze just accused Councilor Ken Miyagishima of trying to filibuster a vote on The Vistas at Presidio.
Miyagishima has been asking tough questions of city staffers all night. Frietze interrupted when Miyagishima was asking about roads in the development, saying he felt he needed to “take a stand here.”
“I feel that there’s some kind of attempt here to keep it from a vote,” he said, urging Mayor Bill Mattiace to move the meeting along.
There was a testy exchange between Miyagishima and Frietze before Mattiace said he agreed.
“I think you’re trying to filibuster this,” Frietze told Miyagishima before Mattiace asked a city staffer to continue with his presentation.
Miyagishima said there is no such thing as a filibuster in a city council meeting.