What? Why did Pat Bauer quash the property tax cap?

[KatzManDu]

Is he a complete fool?

[Voltaire]

1. Because the GOP attached a Defense of Marriage Rider to it

The bill will come up again once it is stripped of that particularly odious piece of legislation.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Exactly right!

And the Senate Republicans tacked their homophobic amendment knowing it wouldn't pass the House in order to score some gay bashing points in November. These people are incapable of putting the old Karl Rove playbook away.

Meanwhile our illustrious new mayor has appointed himself head of the Gestapo, I mean head of Metro Police.