In what may go down as the most ill-conceived idea in the history of bone-head moves by a new city commissioner, Todd Neville used the last five minutes of the regular commission meeting on Monday, September 14, 2015, to launch an attack on Historic City News claiming our report of campaign contributions taken by Neville from David Corneal, his son, Seth Corneal, and Corneal’s lawyer in a high-profile PUD rezoning application, Ellen Avery-Smith; constituted a defamatory attack on himself, a condemnation of the process of local government, and was published maliciously.