Mayor Henry Leads On Bridges While The County Flounders
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 7/25/08 @ 12:40 am - Filed Under Featured, Local Politics
Mayor Tom Henry responded to the county commissioners abdication of responsibility to maintain our bridges by suggesting the county put it to a referendum. Imagine that? A group of politicians actually trusting the citizenry to decide how to best spend their own money - blasphemy!
Unfortunately the county wasted so much time trying to figure out a way to pawn their responsibilities off on everyone else they’ve now missed the deadline to get it on the fall ballot. Another explanation for why the county hadn’t thought of this before could be because they were too busy avoiding a referendum at all costs on the Maplecrest extension project.
Does anyone else find it rather sad that it took the mayor of Fort Wayne to solve a county government problem? Will the commissioners now step in and figure out how to solve the city’s budget problem? Nevermind, they’d just raise taxes…
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It reminds me of the analogy of a frog “dancing” on a hotplate.
Can’t get that picture out of my mind.
Wonder why?
B.G.