Councilman Barry Peters has a new blog at www.bainbridgevoter.wordpress.com.
Peters has already written a handful of posts about city finances, Bainbridge green buildings and the Winslow Way reconstruction project.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Have you seen the stories and editorials about the City Council being consumed in 2008 by 4-to-3 votes? See, for example, the Bainbridge Review’s end-of-year news recap (12/31, p.1).
I think that’s a misconception, so I spent many hours logging every vote taken during the 43 Council meetings (out of 49 in 2008) for which I could find meeting Minutes. I ignored the “Consent Agenda” (which tend to be small noncontroversial matters) and procedural votes, unless they were controversial or significant.
Mostly 4-3? Not by a mile. It turns out that two-thirds of the Council’s 255 significant votes in 2008 were unanimous.”
Spin and counter spin. Is this the site where Barry Peters will announce he is running for Mayor? Hmmm ! I prefer to hear Barry Peters at the Council hearings. The goals at COBI meetings are less opaque than letters to the editor or curve balls.