[Lizavetta]

And since this is in California, they'll likely get it.

[Tacis]

Oh sure, let a black bureaucrat spend a couple of hundred thousand on limosenes, silk suits and business lunches and the money is "mispent." Let a hispanic bureaucrat try an help out a few of the illegal immigrant folks from the old neighborhood, and the money is "mismanaged." Just let a union teacher try to make her home a little nicer after dealing with those animals all day, and it is a problem. Hey, it is public money so don't criticise if some of the public uses some of it for good causes. Besides, if the Republicans ran the city, they'd use the money for bribes, pay offs, and to buy votes, too.

[Congressman Billybob]

Phil,

Here's a follow-up on the San Francisco School Board money story I flagged earlier. They wasted or lost (or stole) $300 million, so not they want $1.1 billion to make up for that.

The Board makes Bonnie & Clyde look like rank amateurs. Any sensible local populatace would say, "Until we recover what we can, and jail the people responsible, nobody gets any more money." At the federal level, dropping $300 million is difficult to notice and hardly worth bending over to pick up. But at the city level, this isstill serious money.

Congressman Billybob