City's ordinances make City's building inspector responsible for enforcing building code standards and authorizes the inspector to refer for prosecution all known building code violations. The inspector took a newspaper reporter through a number of rundown buildings in a slum neighborhood. After using various slurs to describe the occupants of the buildings, the inspector said to the reporter: "I don't even try to get these buildings up to code or to get their owners prosecuted because if these buildings ever were repaired, the people who live in them would just wreck them again." The reporter published the inspector's statement in a story in the local newspaper. The inspector admitted he made the statements. On the basis of the statements and on the authority of another ordinance that allows the inspector to be fired for "good cause," City's council discharged the inspector. Is the City council's action constitutional? Group of answer choices No, because the statements were published in a newspaper that is protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Yes, because the statement demonstrates that the inspector has an attitude toward a certain class of persons that interferes with the proper performance of his obligations and enforcement of the City's building codes. Yes, because the building inspector is a government employee and a person holding such a position may never make comments inconsistent with current governmental policy. No, because the statements were la