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Raven you never let down. Brilliant!

I'd just like to speak to point one, there is no "addressing" the photo op. That can't be fixed. She did it, she stood there and tried to pull it off in front of the TV News cameras and the kids for whom the event was held, she owns it all, and was fired as a result. No "addressing" it will fix any of that.

As to your excellent detailed budget process information, thank you. You know a lot more tahn me and got to the key points that had our City Council, gone Avedisian's way and passed a modest tax hike along with budgeting with more realistic collections expectations, we'd have a tight budget but not an impossible one.

But in our system, a mayor gets way more blame than the council. That's just to my view, how it works. he *could* in support of Stenhouse say that he sent a workable budget (with a tax hike) to the council and they gave out raises and didnt bring enough money, knowing that the schools gave raises, and all of that must be paid for... but many in the public who pay way less attention than we do, will see two things, financial uncertainty now and next year, and that Avedisian was mayor, and bailed. If Avedisian really didnt like what the council was doing, he could have made way more noise about it than he did. I pay some attention and didnt catch the nuances which you had to explain just now. If *I* dont see that, what are the chances the voters at large will?

A mayor is the name and face of a city government, and right now we have an "issue" and I stand by my opinion that Avedisian cant help Stenhouse enough to beat Solomon, not even close.

But that is the fun of all this, we shall see!!!! And thanks as always for your great post!