Is Sarah Lake just plain ignorant or do you think she's just an expert at twisting words?
In today's DT's article on the Budget, the DT's makes it look as if the Mayor might Veto the Budget. Yeah, right! Do you really want a Mayor as indecisive and finicky as Jim Ireton, that's the big question. Your either going to Veto the Budget, or your not.
Nevertheless, Ireton needs to do his typical LOOK AT MEEEEE attention grabber and leave taxpayers in suspense. No matter what, IF he were to Veto the Budget it could truly come back and bite him in the butt.
I'll get to that later. Right now let's get back to Sarah Lake and her twisting of words. In their article today the Daily Times attempts to actually make the COUNCIL look bad for not following up on certain things like billing the County for franchise Comcast money.
GUESS WHAT PEOPLE, that is NOT the Council's job! Mayor Ireton is the ADMINISTRATIVE BODY and the administrative body is in charge of the BILLING. The same exact thing goes for billing fire and ambulance fees to Insurance Companies. IF the Mayor and his Staff wanted that money he would have asked the Council President to place those items on the agenda and passed legislation to go ahead and collect it. That hasn't been requested. Wake up Jim, you're asleep at the wheel again. Oh, that's right, your a school teacher, not a business person.
The Daily Times is a disgusting excuse for a daily newspaper, that's all there is to it. As we stated yesterday from another professional in the Industry, they have no history here any more. Their reporters are new and they really have no clue what's going on.
Instead, Ireton just tells them what to say and do and the DT's prints it. Carmean and Bassett should be thrown to the curb. The Mayor has NO CLUE what his job title actually represents. He and Barrie Tilghman had created an image in which the Mayor has powers in which it does not.
That being said, should Ireton Veto the Budget, there will be NO MONEY and NO BUDGET. Sure, he can Veto the Budget but he'll have to come back to the Council ALL year long asking for money because they make ALL of the legislative/financial decisions for the City and taxpayers.
So go ahead Jim, make this race REALLY easy for me. Veto that budget. The Council should call his bluff because he's about to very quickly learn he doesn't have nor ever has had the power he and Barrie Tilghman made people believe in the past.
The above spells it all out. I WANT, I WANT, I WANT AND I'LL STOMP MY FEET UNTIL I GET MY WAY. Not any more Jimmy.
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Someone needs to call Sesame Street and tell them to come get Big Bird. He's making a fool out of himself.
ReplyDeleteIreton = Obama = LIAR!
ReplyDeleteI saw the newspaper headline at the grocery store.
ReplyDeleteWhy "vow to" veto a budget? Why not just veto it, get the misery over with for everyone, and put out a press release about what a big, bad guy you are with all your power?
What is with the dramatic foreplay?
It is my understanding that if the Mayor vetos the budget that is amended & adopted by Council, the Council can seek to override his veto by a super-majority vote. ( 4:1 )
ReplyDeleteIf the Council cannot get 4 votes, the Mayors budget will then become effective.
anonymous 2:29, you are wrong. READ what I have been telling you. The Mayor has NO legislative power, NONE. If the Mayor vetos the budget he will have to come to the Council for every single penny he'll want and need for the entire year for anything and everything. There will be NO budget if the Mayor vetos it.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I strongly recommend the Council call his bluff because things will not fly the way they used to in the past. Wilber should have known this but Mark Tilghman has done his homework and the Mayor is in a pickle on this one.
I can't wait to watch it unfold.
Ireton would be an idiot to veto the budget, but he has earned that title time and time again, so who knows. It's just another press opportunity to him. Fireworks, budget, and by the way...council approved Bateman St. Only Road months ago. Jim had called press conferences and talked about how badly those improvements were needed for safety. Now he's holding up the project so that his buddy mike Dunn can have fireworks? What's the deal. if it was really a safety hazzard they would have broken ground the day after it was approved. Taxpayers fleeced again.
ReplyDelete2:29, from what I watched on PAc14, it sounds more like we end up with no budget, not the mayor's.
ReplyDeleteEither way, I think the man is just nuts to even think about doing this. His main reason for vetoing it, no matter what he says now, is he's mad they won't raise taxes! Who in their right mind wants to do that in this economy? And all this crisis! Why is this man doing this to the people? I had to put off renewing my meds for a week, got right down to the last pill!
I understand that the Mayor and Shannie have breaksfast at MAC D,s on Paesons rd.
ReplyDelete"Mitchell said the admission and amusement tax -- which was bumped from $160,000 to $290,000 -- is inflated, and should be analyzed to ensure the projection does not include numbers from a four-year period when the city was overpaid. In 2010, it was determined admissions and amusement tax revenues from the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center had been accidentally paid to the city, rather than to the county. The city owed Wicomico County $200,441, which was repaid in installments."
ReplyDeleteLizard droppings. The city paid it back in four $50K+ checks in two years.
Ignorant! She's ignorant!
ReplyDeleteHas Ireton done ANYTHING but oppose this council? Even the Old Gal Barrie was not so freewheeling with vetoes and trashing people, at least she was more discreet about it.
ReplyDeleteLocal yokel political squabbles are funny. Isn't the big conservative point of view, don't like it then move!
ReplyDeleteso move.
9:19, it's the big liberal point of view too. Shanie Shields tells us to move all the time.
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