The Denver Post: The Aurora City Council has tightened its rules for public input at its meetings, doing away with the option to call in with comments two weeks after a caller delivered a racist and antisemitic tirade that was broadcast in the chamber.

Mayor Mike Coffman said before Monday’s vote that allowing live phone-in participation leaves the door open to vile content that the First Amendment does not permit the council, a government body, to curtail.

“Somebody can call in from anywhere in the country and say whatever they want, and there’s nothing we can do,” he said. “I think showing up at a council meeting is sufficient.”

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