FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The professional association for city managers issued a public censure against a Michigan city official in part because he promised firefighters and police that he wouldn’t impose a hypothetical vaccine mandate but would instead follow alternative COVID-19 protocols. Now, he’s suing to restore his good name.
“I was honestly heartbroken to see the [International City/County Management Association] publicly censure me, faulting me for violating a vaccine mandate that didn’t exist,” James Freed, city manager of Port Huron, Michigan, told The Daily Signal in a written statement.
The International City/County Management Association serves as the major professional association for city managers across the U.S. The organization claims to be politically neutral, but Freed says that it censured him in part as retaliation after he complained…
