Mayor Davlin cant stand losing

Mayor Tim Davlin of Springfield played a political game last week when he called for a vote on the Sierra Club agreement knowing ahead of time that he did not have enough votes to pass the ordinance. I have no doubt that the Mayor thought he could force one or more of the alderman opposed to the deal into voting for its passage if for no other reason than fear of the voters. He was wrong and ** HE LOST **.

That irritated the Mayor and because Davlin cannot stand losing anything, has decided to call for a special meeting of the City Council on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 to try again.

Last week Todd Renfro pulled some magical numbers out of his ass about how the refusal of passing the deal would cost the rate payers hundreds of thousands of dollars per day was a lie and he knows it. He has refused to supply answers as to how the numbers were arrived at and our Mayor is now quoting those same numbers. Numbers that he knows are a lie and he is using them simply as a scare tactic.

Mayor, you lost the vote, you lost credibility, and your "my way or the highway mentality" has no place in city government.

I personally would like to see Davlin resign from office over this fiasco, but with the likes of Sam Madonia (a so called Republican) supporting this hose job, I seriously doubt it will happen. We can only hope that someone else files suit so it nullifies the deal immediately.