Mayor Pothole

The Chron continues to be uncharacteristically critical of the mayor it helped to re-elect. I guess they are not convinced by the Mayor's lackey on City Council, Gordon Quan, who offered this nonsense about Mayor Pothole's latest budget:

It's nickel and dime, it's not meat and potatoes," Quan said. "We hate to cut anything, but we're trying to make it as painless as possible."

Quan said that, given public opposition to a major tax increase, increases in city fees are the only way to bring in needed money.

Thanks Gordon. I'm glad you don't think that fee increases are the equivalent of taxation.

Interestingly, the Chron has even run an op-ed today that questions the Greater Houston Partnership. What's gotten into that wacky paper?! You'd think they had turned into an objective news organization or something. But past experience tells us that's probably too much to hope for.

[Posted at 10:54 CST on 05/19/02] [Link]