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@freely, this will be my last post on the matter;

The Council has a limited amount of time to approve/amend a budget proposed by the executive branch. Yes, Gray and the Council approved the budgets, but you can only do so much when the inner workings are so intertwined, and as the much maligned transition report indicated, for example, the DDOT budget was a mess. The executive has months to put a budget together, the council has weeks to review and approve it.

There is blame all of the way around, but ultimately it is the executive branch which is responsible for proposing and executing a balanced budget. Fenty didn't come close and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I prefer a different approach towards the budget process. I am not sure yet if the Gray administration "gets" it, but I know for sure that Fenty didn't. To put it simply, the District could not afford another four years of Fenty. Period.

That doesn't mean Gray is a panacea, not even close, but he will have three years from now to try to right the ship and then we will see if Kwame Brown or someone else wants to step up to make it better. Or, we could choose our Congressional overlords to see if their approach is better.

by Andrew on Apr 4, 2011 3:31 pm • link • report