Gahan AWOL as city council discusses the school referendum, voting machines and precinct boundaries.

Pillsbury's on ice, so the mayor has been returned to his cryogenic storage tube.

As so often is the case, with nothing "official" on the agenda, last evening's council klatch was transformed into Potpourri for a few million, Alex.

Downtown elementary schools.

(What are things we close so other schools become crowded and require fresh bond issues to reconstruct?)

Voting machines.

(What are items the city must buy because Mark Seabrook prevents the county from doing so?)

Precinct boundaries.

(What are ever-shifting, amorphous lines kept vague on Mark Seabrook's orders?)

And so on, and so forth, and forever we drift toward Eastridgeocracy, or government by dump truck-wielding wealth extractors.

Read all about it, courtesy of Daniel Suddeath, who in mid-meeting tweeted this:

Three of four mayoral candidates at tonight's New Albany council meeting. We're just missing the incumbent.

That's what I'm saying.

A primary concern in New Albany: Voting issues, school referendum on council’s mind ahead of May election, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — One item of business fed off the other Monday, as the New Albany City Council considered several topics related to the upcoming May 5 primary.

Floyd County Council cops the same tired poverty plea: We're too damned poor to afford voting rights.

We might add: Too damned stupid.

JeffG seals it.

Because, gosh darn it, this democracy stuff is just too complicated and expensive. We had plenty of machines located at many more much more accessible polling places that worked just fine. A bipartisan effort put an end to all that. Hooray for the two-party system.

Let's look at that word again: Bipartisan.

Lest we forget that when it comes to pleas of poverty, and there's not a fourth Camm trial to blame, former Floyd County Council members Ted Heavrin and the late Larry McAllister, both DINO Dixiecrats, created institutionalized governmental starvation at the county level.

Republicans? They've merely perfected it.

Floyd County Council members respond to long lines during Election Day, by Scott Adkins (WAVE-3)

... "Obviously to the voters, that's not an acceptable process," said Floyd County Clerk Christy Eurton. "I went to the council earlier in the year and asked for 20 additional election machines. They only gave me 10."
However, county council members Lana Aebersold and Dana Fendley said additional machines isn't the solution.

"The council cannot afford any more machines," Aebersold said.