EXTRA EXTRA: Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in Danger! The Capital Times accuses Madison City Council members of sponsoring a resolution for political reasons.
April trolley vote unneeded: Council President Austin King is right when he says that the sponsors of the resolution are guilty of "galling hypocrisy." The same people who opposed going to referendum on the smoking ban and the paid sick leave proposal now want to rush the council into scheduling a nonbinding referendum that, just coincidentally, will be on the ballot when residents will be voting for mayor and City Council.
"This is a transparently political effort," explains King. The term "transparently political" is generously chosen. Another, slightly less generous, term would be "embarrassingly political." … In other words, they are trying - via the referendum proposal - to turn the April 3 ballot into a campaign commercial. This is the crudest sort of politics, and it has no place in Madison.
