Ideas We Should Steal: Night Mayor
Open mouth, insert foot. Poor Mark Squilla had no idea he would get so much flack from the local music scene when he proposed the Special Assembly Occupancies bill back in January, a bill which would have required venue owners to collect names, addresses and phone numbers in a police-maintained registry of musicians, DJs, rappers and other performers.
A petition circulated as soon as the music scene caught wind of it, ending up with just a little under 16,000 signatures all together.