In accordance with expectations, Asheville City Council six-oned three opportunities to receive donations from the federal deficit to assist local public safety efforts. The dissenting votes came from Dr. Carl Mumpower who pulled the items from the consent agenda. Disappointingly, he didn’t flag the item where the contributions from the federal deficit were “already there,” but he did say he regretted it being so.
Robin Cape, extending an olive branch to the lone conservative who is always on the losing side of votes, said she would like to see tracking of the ROI of newly-printed money delivered to Asheville. That is, she wanted to see how porkulus was growing tax revenues.
