The House speaker has gotten considerable grief for not being able to hold together every last member of her 93-person caucus, plus the 6 Progs and 2 Indies. Imagine the grief when the Burlington City Council Democrats couldn't hold together their tiny little caucus of six for the election of a council president last night.
Bill Keogh, a Democrat who doubles as a member of the city council and the state House, made that point to his Statehouse colleagues this afternoon.
Kurt Wright, who like Keogh plays double duty on the council and in the House, was warned this morning not to get too used to the title of Mr. President.
Tis a bit odd, Keogh and other Democrats acknowledged, that they allowed a Republican to sneak through as council president in the land of the liberals. Ironic, too, that the vacancy for council president came after Democrat Ian Carleton resigned because he found the council work to be too much on top of his lawyer work, his family life and his role as the state's Democratic Party chairman.
- Terri Hallenbeck
