PORT TOWNSEND – Following an impromptu Pledge of Allegiance led by an audience member during Monday’s Jefferson County commissioners’ meeting, Commissioner David Sullivan said Tuesday he plans to discuss making the pledge recital routine.
The commissioners do not recite the pledge to open their meetings at the county courthouse.
“It caused me to rethink the whole issue in terms of the place of ritual in our community,” Sullivan said, referring to Joe D’Amico, president of Security Services Northwest homeland security training firm, leading the meeting audience in the Pledge of Allegiance during the public comments portion of Monday’s agenda.
Sullivan, D-Cape George, added, “Thinking of the anniversary that’s coming up this weekend of the Iraq war – it’s been five years – it seems like a good time to take a pause.”
He said he will introduce the issue for debate with the other two commissioners at the start of this Monday’s meeting.
