From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [UC] Funding special services - PA BID law
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:08:24 EDT
...The main reason that the UCD BID
proposal has dragged on for so long is that Councilwoman Blackwell has
heard that
there isn't universal approval of it, so she refuses to introduce it in
City
Council. ...But, she won't introduce it and let whatever happens, happen.
And somehow I think that she's even less likely to introduce it, given the
"two-by-four upside the head" she delivered to UCD yesterday.
Can another Council member introduce it? In City Council, there is a
CUSTOM
- not a law, but a custom, a sign of respect - where no other Council
member
will introduce a bill which will affect a District Councilperson's area.
It's called Councilmatic Privilege.
Any Councilperson who did that would be committing political suicide among
his or her colleagues, because if s/he did it to Jannie, s/he could do it to
anyone. The other members, whether District or At-Large, would never risk
losing their own power to introduce or pass bills by allowing themselves or
anyone else to break that precedent.
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