Jay GreesonWednesday morning, four Hamilton County Commissioners tried to reach back into your pocket and grab almost $1 million of your money.
Are commissioners building something specific? Are they making a grand gesture in fighting the opioid crisis or using that money to fund efforts to feed hungry school kids?
Nope. It was a cash grab that lingered somewhere between a cheap 1970s British TV game show with the $100 bills blowing everywhere in a phone booth and the old-school politics of 1930s Louisiana.
The only thing missing were masks. Or maybe Hamilton County taxpayers’ ATM codes.
Led by Tim “Butch Cassidy” Boyd and Dr. Warren “Sundance” Mackey, what started as an amendment to a needless resolution to increase commissioner’s travel funds reignited the debate about discretionary funds that were rightly done away with two years ago.