Proud-gay-tech billionaire Peter Thiel has done a lot of fascinating things. One of these things is trying to bankrupt Gawker Media.

The City Clerk plans to retroactively mark Councilmember Pete Constant down as an unexcused absence for last week’s City Council meeting. Unbeknownst to almost anyone, Constant, who was out of the office almost all of August after back surgery, was attending the Repubican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.