Burlington Free Press reports the entire council, except for Ed Adrian, approved going to the Public Service Board to "relax" the rule that forces Burlington Telecom to pay back money borrowed from the taxpayers within 60 days, a rule they had apparently been violating anyway.
Good on Ed Adrian for casting the one correct vote. Boo to the rest of the council for acting like sheep on this one. What's up with my supposedly 'fiscally conservative' representation from ward 7? Why do we bother electing Republicans if they are just going to vote however Jonathon Leopold wants? Anybody can wave a flag. It takes a little more than that to actually protect the taxpayers from a bad deal.
Ed is one big red flag. He's like the robot on Lost in Space.
ReplyDeleteYou're dating yourself with the Lost in Space reference. Ed is quirky, but he's the only councilor to have voted correctly on this. They should have sent it back to the Board of Finance with instructions to examine the idea longer than the 5 minutes Bill Keogh said they spent on it.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the Board of Finance approving things with little or no discussion? Didn't anyone learn a thing from Brendan Keleher's double pension?