Charlotte Moses is making excuses for canceling the December 30th meeting, and it’s embarrassing.
This isn’t a “staff mistake.” This is leadership failure.
Mayor Moses is old enough and has been in office long enough to stop playing clueless. If you’ve been sitting in that seat for years, you don’t get to hide behind the City Attorney and the City Secretary and pretend you “didn’t know” what the ordinance meant. Read it. It’s not written in code. It’s clear.
What makes this even worse is her logic: “Let’s see how they did it a few years ago and just copy that.”That’s not governing. That’s laziness with a title.
A real leader doesn’t outsource accountability. A real leader doesn’t shrug and blame staff when it’s THEIR responsibility to make the call. And a real leader doesn’t cancel a public meeting, then act like they had no choice.
If the ordinance says the meeting must be rescheduled, then reschedule it. Period.Stop stalling. Stop dodging. Stop disrespecting the public with excuses.
Because at this point, it’s not incompetence, it’s a pattern.
And the people of Port Arthur are supposed to accept this “low-effort leadership” like it’s normal.
No.
This is exactly how corruption survives: blame staff, play confused, delay accountability, and keep the public in the dark.
Charlotte Moses didn’t just cancel a meeting.She cancelled responsibility.
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