_{Tuesday’s Crescent City Harbor District meeting}

Crescent City Harbor Commissioner Annie Nehmer called an effort to censure her and remove her from the vice chair position a smear campaign that wastes more time and taxpayer money.

Before her colleagues voted to officially reprimand her, Nehmer outlined a series of grievances aimed primarily at Chair Gerhard Weber, who she accused of looking the other way as the agency neared insolvency. 

“This really has no ramifications other than trying to make me look bad in public,” she said Tuesday. “It’s a giant smear campaign against me to attempt to get me to step down and resign. It’s not going to happen.”

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Crescent City Harbor commissioners rehashed whether one of their colleagues acted outside her scope for the second day in a row at a meeting that culminated in raised voices and a recall threat from the public.

Ultimately, a motion to appoint Annie Nehmer as one of two commissioners on an ad hoc committee related to renegotiating a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan failed Wednesday with three of her colleagues casting no votes. 

Their decision came ahead of a third special meeting that had been scheduled for Thursday but has since been canceled. Nehmer’s censure and removal from her vice chair position was on the agenda.

Thumbnail photo by Amanda Dockter

Linda Sutter urged Gerard Weber to call the police on Tuesday, refusing to leave the Crescent City Harbor District’s special meeting until she had her three minutes to speak.

Stepping to the rostrum after Weber, the CCHD’s chairman, told the public to stick to items that weren’t on the agenda, Sutter addressed the potential censure of one of his colleagues when he stopped her.

“We should not talk about items that are on the agenda,” he said.

When Sutter protested, pointing out that she is speaking about Harbor District business and accusing Weber of disrupting her right to free speech, Weber called a halt to the meeting.