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I’ve been kinda slacking in my job as part time .Gov hater here in town, I’m afraid.  Last night, Netmom liveblogged a council session that was to determine whether the council was going to man up and fund the school system enough so that they wouldn’t have to cut classes, which is damn near an annual event.  This year, tho, was the first time that the schools had a shot of getting some satisfaction.

In a backwards ass way.

See, the council saw the schools request for a 7 cent property tax increase, and then raised it to a 10 cent one, split 50-50 between the school board and the city budget, which up until now had not been complaining of a lack of funding.

So, the schools still didn’t fully get what they were after, and now shoulder the weight of having a larger property tax in the next year.

The architect for this?

Leonard F—in Abbatiello.

This guy has been bitching and moaning about the school board not answering his questions in the closed door meetings held by the Budget and Finance committee he is on to oversee the financial plans of this city, something thats already backwards, questions that have all been answered multiple times in multiple places (hell, I can answer em), and in the meeting last night he again took the floor to issue a diatribe against the school system and the board of education.

Good thing the jackal is leaving council this term.  If I had to sit and watch more of his obvious bias against the school system, it’d probably drive me crazy.  We get enough of that crap from elsewhere, we sure don’t need to vote it in.

Speaking of which, theres a lot of talk about a certain city council candidate trying to lowball the school board election.  Daco mentioned it, and I took him to task for not citing sources.  Since then, I’ve heard from about 7 or 8 pretty reliable sources, all telling me that there are several elderly folk in town who report being advised to only vote for one candidate in the two-seat school board election, and all needing anonymity for various reasons.

If I had a citation for it, I’d make it a huge deal, as it is, I’m still not sure how accurate it is, but if it is accurate, it totally affects my opinion of this candidate.  Frankly, it puts the candidate into the worse possible light, not only advising on a race she’s not running for, but advising people not to exercise constitutional rights.  Its backwards, its wrong, and if true, is going to have me looking for a rail to run this person out of town on.

See, I’m already all pissed off, and its only 7:30.