We can’t get our way, so we’ll just move the goalpost and change the rules.

From CBSNewsBaltimore:

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power.

Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett of Ward 8 tells The Capital he will introduce a charter amendment to move Annapolis to a council-manager style of government. The city manager would report directly to the City Council, not the mayor.

But here’s the odd thing I just noticed: despite this being read over the internet, I can hear the petulant “waaaaaaah” in the Sierra Nevada Mountains as I write, all the way from Baltimore.  Imagine that.

Under Arnett’s legislation, the mayor’s post would be largely ceremonial. The mayor would retain a single vote on the council. Arnett says the change would stabilize the city’s management.

If the measure is approved, it would mean the Democratic-dominated council would be removing the powers of the first Republican mayor elected since 1997.

Keep it coming, Demorats.  Actions like this simply continue to prove that, first, I made the right decision by leaving your party in the 70s and, second, that none of you will ever grow up and become actual adults.

BZ