"The Driskell agenda was soft. It had no meat on it," council member says Justin A. Barkley '02, a two-year council member.
But Driskell says she has brought the council together in some ways.
As an example of her successes, she points to March of last year when Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 and David B. Orr '01, widely considered to be among the council's most conservative and most liberal members respectively, co-sponsored a resolution condemning police brutality.
"It's always been my philosophy that if we can't get along as people, we can't function as a council," Driskell says.
Others disagree over the extent to which the council is unified.
"It seems in the time I've been here, [the council has] never been as divided as it as now," Barkley says.
Driskell and Barkley agree that bitterness remains from the failed attempt to remove Burton from office. In February, a majority of the council --but not the two-thirds necessary for removal--voted to remove Burton on an impeachment charge stemming from alleged violations of campaign rules.
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