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Nothing pretentious about it at all. It could be very interesting.

Could be. But I guess it'll be someone else as starts it.

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So far, all commission put back in is their travel allowance. No funds for Beck, no funds for senior KAT riders, no employee raises.

It's gonna be funny if they put their discretionary funds back in too. Go along with Burchett on cutting all the things that would serve others, but restore the things that are self-serving. Burchett will have made them look entirely self-interested.

Ha, turned it on just now and discretionary fund restoration is defeated.

If you do not snark Amy Broyles and her Lumpy impression today then you got no snark. This was classic. How many amendments went into the weeds? She actually out-filibustered the filibuster champion.

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If you do not snark Amy Broyles and her Lumpy impression today then you got no snark. This was classic. How many amendments went into the weeds? She actually out-filibustered the filibuster champion.

As an official representative of the Ron Peabody campaign, are you going on record here celebrating people losing their jobs and being denied raises? Just checking. (I'm assuming from now on we can assume what you say goes for him, right?)

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Anyway, I found the meeting interesting. Partly for how few commissioners seemed to have done much of any homework coming in. A lot of the questions being asked showed some confusion and general ignorance of what was actually in the proposal they were voting on.

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As an official representative of the Ron Peabody campaign, are you going on record here celebrating people losing their jobs and being denied raises? Just checking. (I'm assuming from now on we can assume what you say goes for him, right?)

Are you going to give Broyles a pass for her conduct today? If Lumpy pulled this, what would you do?

ILPTWWYD? The new standard in "journalism".

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Are you going to give Broyles a pass for her conduct today? If Lumpy pulled this, what would you do?

Pulled what? And I don't know what you mean about a pass, but I'm not even writing the story. I had other things to do in the office, so I listened to most of it there.

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Anyway, I found the meeting interesting. Partly for how few commissioners seemed to have done much of any homework coming in. A lot of the questions being asked showed some confusion and general ignorance of what was actually in the proposal they were voting on.

Excuse me while I throw the bullshit card, like a red card in soccer. Amy missed every single budget meeting. Refused to talk to the Mayor or his staff. Then did her budget and went to the KNS. Then finally called the Mayor and told him to get in line like she had some authority of some kind.

So what were you saying about homework?

Seriously, this person wasted so much time today refusing to here/understand/comprehend that there was NO money to rob from the contractually scheduled debt payment.

And you will accuse the other Commissioners of confusion and ignorance? Is there something in the water in the 2nd District?

I expect the usual byline in your throw away next week. "Brave Commissioner shut down by vast right wing conspiracy".

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My opinion as an informed observer is that county commissioners who have had six weeks or so to consider this budget should not have been asking the questions some of them asked today. And Broyles is the one who seemed to have done the most research -- at least she called some people. Some of these guys seemed like they hadn't thought to ask anything until about an hour before they were supposed to vote.

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And the confusion about the debt payments -- which has still not been satisfactorily clarified, as far as I'm concerned -- was fueled by Burchett's crowing about how much he was "paying down." If all his proposal does is make legally-obligated payments, what's he bragging about?

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And the confusion about the debt payments -- which has still not been satisfactorily clarified, as far as I'm concerned -- was fueled by Burchett's crowing about how much he was "paying down." If all his proposal does is make legally-obligated payments, what's he bragging about?

If you don't know the material, then wait until you do to opine. The debt payment was very satisfactorily clarified over a period of weeks. Amy was wrong. Way wrong. You burned Lumpy for so much less. We'll see what you are made of. This is a credibility test of you and your paper.

Seriously, don't defend this conduct. Find out what the actual story is before you defend her. She was in clinical denial. It was over the top. Don't throw away your reputation to defend the indefensible. Watch the entire thing and call Troyer. This was misconduct. Lumpy got censored for less.

Hammond called her on it. Check your sources.