May 22nd, 2007 by Atomictumor
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.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:19 am
I do hope your day gets better Sally.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
I’m kind of amused that this post gets a “Poetry” tag… but I suppose there is a sort of poetry in local politics, or at least some similarities. Like the vast majority of both are bad and make people angry, but also can cause people to devote a lot of their creative energy to them… Okay, this metaphor isn’t going very well. But anyway, hope the forces of good win out over the forces of evil.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:11 am
I agree with you AT. People really don’t understand the whole process and can be easily led. You have to hope they are led the right way.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:21 am
Zapaper, I’d love to tell you that you’re right and that there is a higher meaning to the poetry tag, but truth is, its right above the ‘rant’ tag, and I didn’t notice until now that I clicked it.
But, uh, I like your explanation better.
Daco, the day has been so unbelievably irritating. Just so you know. I’m in full high blood pressure mode.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:12 pm
They’ve got pills for that ace. Simmer down. Hippies don’t have high blood pressure.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Stick to topic here, Daco…
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
This is my thinking regarding the last part of the post.
There are some people who swear its the truth. However, nobody’s coming up saying “She told ME this”.
This is all political crap, and I’m not sinking to it, true or not, and I think those that have should, like, reevaluate stuff. Or something.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
“reevaluate stuff. Or something…”
Now that is insight. This story is coming from too many directions. Tends to make one believe it. Couple that with the non-answer answer on the forums, the circumstantial evidences gets stronger. No direct evidence though, that is troublesome.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Maybe I am reading the forum wrong but I think quarterback said he/she heard it directly from her/his neighbors when talking about election. He/she was trying to explain that they could vote for more than one for the two offices. Am I reading this too black and white and am I missing some grey somewhere. Doesn’t get clearer than that. I also do not see a direct yes or no to the question. What I see is political beating around the bush not to answer the question directly. Lots of analogies but no direct answer. Yes or No. Yes I might have said it. No I never told anyone to single shot me or any other candidate. Easy as 1,2 3.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Yeah, but isn’t the political dirty business to make your opponent (who doesn’t even apply to this conversation) deny something? By denying something ridiculous, it lends credence to it?
And somebody on the forums did mention speaking to somebody personally, but it is still third party, and I’m not buying it yet.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Aaah rats.
I was really admiring the way you all even have forums and such and thinking (for about a nanosecond; since I am a computer RETARD) that I should start something like that in my crooked little town.
But now I see that politics is politics all over the land and even having forums where the well informed (for the most part) meet to debate does not necessarily grant immunity from stupid political moves.
It just seems so futile….
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Its not, its just emotional and childish.