Now Comes the Fireworks
There was almost a fight at tonight’s City-County Council meeting over the public safety tax. It wasn’t the one between Republican Ike Randolph and Democrat Vern Brown. Brown called Randolph a coward on the Council floor for not voting on the measure. Randolph asked Brown to step outside the chamber and talk like men, which Brown refused. The fight I’m talking about was the one between the Council and the public.
I have never seen such hostility between a government and its people without someone storming the Bastille. The only individuals who were there in support of the tax increase were city and county officials. The public was against it and a number of them were thrown out for disrupting the meeting by shouting “no new taxes.”
Council members who voted for the tax increase called it an exercise in leadership. Council members who voted against it called it looking for the easy way out. I call it the fight of the century come November; in this corner the public and in this corner, their government!
Let’s get ready to rumble.
By the way, the two Republicans I predicted would vote for the measure did, Scott Keller and Lance Langsford. Two Democrats, Sherron Franklin and Dane Mahern, voted against the measure
