A first for the City Council in this century

Rasanky and Margolin

The Dallas City Council passed the budget for fiscal year 2011-12 today and for the first time this century the council person representing District 13 voted in favor of the budget.

This was District 13's Ann Margolin's third budget vote. She voted against it last year because of the tax increase and voted against it the year before because of fee increases she felt were tax increases. In the eight years prior to Margolin's election, the district was represented by Mitchell Rasansky who never met a budget that met his approval.

Before Rasansky, Donna Blumer, another extreme right wing conservative, represented District 13. Maybe someone can refresh my memory on her votes on the budget. Margolin's "yes" vote today may be breaking an even longer record of obstinance than I recall.