Monday, March 8, 2010

No trip to cherry blossoms

Economic reality has finally caught up with the Bessemer City Council as no one will attend the annual National League of Cities meeting next week in Washington, D.C.

It is the first time in at least three decades that no one from the Bessemer council went up to see the annual cherry blossoms and relax at taxpayer expense.

"We just passed our budget and there is no money," says Councilwoman Dorothy Davidson.

This is an election year and with unemployment in Bessemer at about 15 percent, no one wants voters this summer to think that their money was being thrown away.

Davidson is running for mayor along with four other candidates.

—Tribune staff report

2 comments:

Ben Mason said...

Everybody got religion these days -- especially in an election year.

Ray said...

Yes you can tell election time is here. She did not even consider their spending rampage for $2500 of candy for the Christmas parade and thousands for bingo lawyers! Now is the time to count the cost? What will she and the council do with all the legal bills now?