And so you get the parking meter lease and the Skyway lease and the attempted Midway lease and the proposed water lease. Anything to avoid raising taxes.

(Notable exception: the county sales tax hike by Todd Stroger that just will not die.)

Could somebody revivify Ronald Reagan, so that I may strangle him for turning politicians in this country into complete morons?

No one knows exactly how many people are on the city payroll. Permitting for construction takes months. The water department goes without billing people for months and then expects someone to pay $1,000 for an obviously incorrect charge. My garbage sometimes only gets picked up when a city employee feels like it. Fortunately we’re not at Chicago style corruption (the current mayor did clean up the previous mayor’s crap), but to say that things are dysfunctional is putting it mildly.

Still, I’d rather live in town than suffocate under Psychogeezer-voting suburbia.

When we last checked, Albany was the clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks. Who, of the three candidates, is the only one in the State Legislature? Yep. Dede. (Yes, she’s in the out-party in the Assembly, which gives her the power of a bucket of gravel. And yet: BOO, ALBANY!)

But, hey, a vote for Hoffman is a vote against SOCIALISM so whoopee hurrah &c.

that surprises me a little. I just spent two years working and living in Atlanta before I came here (two years ago now) and I thought they had the whole political thing down pretty well. it would surprise me if what you said happens.