If last night’s Common Council meeting could be likened to a football game then it was the Republicans acting like the New England Patriots and the Democrats acting like the Miami Dolphins. Both these teams are working on perfect records. For you non football fans out there, the Patriots are currently 10-0 while the Dolphins are currently 0-10. Now, before we get all our partisan fur up, let’s review what happened. Two teams hit the field last night, one team executed its strategy perfectly and the other didn’t. While I’ll get into the analysis of what really happened, let’s not drop sight of the most important part.

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