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Originally Posted by Slava
The city should cover sitting politicians in the xcourse of their job, but on defamation? That's another story. Why should taxpayers be on the hook? That's jot 'just another day at the office'?
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Because the position invites frivolous lawsuits. We can't have a situation where a strategy to discredit an elevted official is to sue them personally and force them to settle because they can't afford to mount a vigorous defense. So rather then decide based on the merits of each case who the city should defend it should be a blanket policy of the city to defend its elected officials.