With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, following a contentious meeting and the final, non-agenda item public speaking round, the city council suddenly regained a measure of sanity and dramatically entertained a motion to form a committee of at-large council persons and plaintiffs in the redistricting lawsuit in the hope of achieving resolution prior to trial.
This moment came after three of the plaintiffs carefully and factually outlined the current situation. We’ll see about publishing these comments later this weekend.
After counsel was consulted, the vote was 5 to 3 in favor of the committee, with Bill Schmidt (bafflingly and incredibly) abstaining.
Needless to say, Larry Kochert and Dan Coffey remain bitterly opposed. Steve Price joined them in voting against the committee even though he almost certainly doesn’t grasp the impact of the determination of his brethren to run the bus off the cliff rather than join together to ensure equality of representation in New Albany.
Apologies for scooping the Tribune, but Mr. Campbell left early.
There’ll be more on this topic in the coming days, but before then, I’d like to thank Dan Coffey for introducing the following NAC blog post into the public record during the meeting:
Redistricted dimensions of Kochert & Ko. Koup revealed by our friendly informant, Even Deeper Throat.
This should effectively thwart any effort by the council’s vindictive bloc to resuscitate the “Caesar’s assassination” scenario that our informant previously and correctly reported, because any effort to do so in the future would only prove that our report was spot on.
And Coffey and Co. would really, really hate that.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Late rally by city council's rational thinkers brings hope to redistricting imbroglio.
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6 comments:
A big thanks to Lloyd, Roger and Randy for representing sanity and to the majority of the council for recognizing it.
Agreed.
Well, I see Erika and her partner are at it again. Just a couple of thoughts.
I'm really happy that, to them, over $9,500 in property taxes is considered an average homeowner. My hat is off to them. On a single property, what is that? Maybe $600,000 valuation? Not average in my neighborhood.
Another thought is about is their "property tax gone wild". In actuality, the TOTAL amount of property taxes did not wildly go up. Maybe 4% on average. I am not tickled about property taxes either but "wild" statements must be corrected. Some property tax bills have gone up dramatically but other property tax bills went down roughly a corresponding amount. To be fair, Erika and company are not the only ones who have got this wrong.
Finally, they could have commented on much more from last night's Council meeting if they had not left very early. Actually they left right after the Council decided to to table naming the 3rd member of the SWB. Care to guess who one of the nominees was? Such concern for the "average" Joe. It touches my heart--like an attack!
Sorry NAC, for the long comment.
IAH,
No need to apologize. Rock on!!
iamhoosier,
Check out the Tribune's coverage of the property tax story. The man who paid his $9,500 property in ones owns 11 rental properties (and probably a 12th property for his own residence although the story does not mention it).
So $9,500 divided by 11 is $863. I figure that they don't teach long divison at Professor Erika's establishment of higher delusion.
Yeah, I read the Tribune's account after I got home. Just another example of the Erikas'failure to tell the whole story while attempting to make a point.
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