The legal department tells us we have to do it this way.

In no way, shape or fashion do we want to exclude the mayor. This is not our money we are dealing with. It is the people's money. The mayor is the people's elected representative and we can use any input he makes.

And we have promised to give the city another $2.5 million, which it counts on to pay for fire protection and police and other services our citizens have which are not revenue producing.

And maybe I would feel that way too if I were in his position.

He stood up and told us if we didn't take the boot off he was going to kill us.

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.