So the news is in:
The City of Montgomery will have to go back to the drawing board for their budget. In a surprise "change of mind" by city council member Tim Head, the expected passage of the 2007 budget WITH discretionary funds has failed.
Head originally voted for the budget. The mayor, Bobby Bright, vetoed the budget - which he had already promised he would do. The city council said they could override the veto with another 5-4 vote, and swing-vote Tim Head changed all that to the surprise of most of the city council.
Of course, in Alabama, everything has to do with race, so the city council has officially divided on the budget issue by race. The blacks voting for it, the whites voting against it. And this is the news in Montgomery, not to anyone's surprise.
In other news, after the departures of Donald Rumsfeld, John Giles, Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh and Ken Mehlman, the newest person to resign is our United Nations representative John Bolton.
If you remember, his vote was stalled in the Senate, so El Presidente Dubya threw Bolton into the job by a recess appointment....but alas, you don't get a second chance on that, so Bolton, who saw the election results and knew his fate was not to keep that job, decided to resign.
So, farewell ye, Bolton. You may now go back to publicly trashing the U.N. without having to worry about the effects on your job.
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