I LIVE for stuff like this.
Wilmington City Council pays $1000 so that Councilman Mike Brown can fly back from Florida on the city’s dime to cast the deciding vote to override the Mayor’s veto of cuts to the Fire Department budget only to come up…TWO VOTES SHORT. Oh, and for reasons that not even Mike Brown can explain, he lied about where he was vacationing. Why? I have no idea. Apparently, neither does he. From Amy Cherry’s WDEL story (watch and listen):
“Monday night Councilman Mike Brown told me he was out-of-state in Maryland.
It turns out Mike Brown lied.
“So why did you tell me you were in Maryland yesterday?” I asked.
“Because it really didn’t matter what I told you, you were going to find out anyway.
“Why lie about it then? Why not tell me the truth?” I asked.
“I don’t think I lied about it, I think I just didn’t wanna tell you where I was,” said Brown.”
Okeydoke. And Brown wasn’t about to fly back on his own dime to vote to save the city money. Still, riddle me this, Batman. How the bleep can Theo Gregory piss away $1000 of taxpayers’ money without even knowing how many bleeping votes he had? Casey Stengel put it best. “Can’t anybody here play this game?”