The Citizen Action Council (formerly known as the Binghamton City Council) has rubber-stamped Mayor Matt Ryan’s Christmas wish list to the tune of $9.4 million–and hey, instead of doing it on the first day they took office, they waited 35 days. How considerate of them.

As we feared, the Gang of Seven (council members) do not have a voice of their own but instead seem to all share the same brain. They are Citizen Action clones. Citizen Action is the far-left socialist group dedicated to winning elections by snookering people on the lower end of the economic scale and then draining taxpayers’ pockets and transferring the wealth (to repay their voters) when they assume office. Their views are about as close to Marxism as you can get without being called a Communist.

But I digress. Last night Binghamton City Council voted to approve $9.4 million in bonding (that is, borrowing money we don’t have and amortizing it over a generation so taxpayers and their children have to pay it back) for items like road and bridge repairs, sewer line repairs, parks, software upgrades, and oh, $200,000 for GPS (global position system) units for City vehicles. We don’t want City workers to get lost going from Court Street to Front Street. Last night’s vote doesn’t mean the City will borrow the full $9.4 million–this is the credit line Council is willing to grant our obtuse mayor.

Of course, the Gang of Seven found a compulsion to waste taxpayer’s time by taking a symbolic vote (7-0 in favor) on a resolution encouraging Congress to impeach Bush & Cheney. These are the brainiac far-left Democrats (all seven of them) you’ve elected to office folks. Instead of doing the tough work of the City–figuring out how to repair roads and bridges and sewers without further raising taxes or going into debt for future generations–they hurry to vote on borrowing money so they can spend their time on frivolous nonsense like impeachment that is NOT part of their responsibility as council members.

I’d like to float of the idea of impeaching Mayor Ryan and the Gang of Seven. They’ve already shown they can’t properly govern. Too bad we don’t have a recall provision. We now have to wait until the next election cycle to flush these people out of City government. Maybe it’s a good thing we’re borrowing to repair the sewer lines.

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