Unfair to supes?
There's a comment on a previous entry about the supervisors and the fair dinner that expresses dismay that I don't laud supervisors Jim Wattenburger and Mike Delbar whenever the topic of pay raises comes up since they voted against the pay raises and yet get lumped into the phrase "the supervisors" when I talk about it. I have had several political supports of these two say the same thing to me. Here's what I tell them:
First of all, when you know there are three votes for something, it's easy to vote against it.
But, being less cynical, let's say those two supervisors really, really feel strongly against the pay raise. I didn't hear either one of them ever say they wouldn't take it, that they would donate it back to the county's coffers. I also didn't see either one of them standing behind a petition table to help get signatures from the citizenry to overturn it. Even as a symbolic gesture that would have made an impression.
Just to vote against something you know is going to pass easily is not enough if you're looking to make political hay out of it.
And I should say that all of our news stories about this have made it clear which way they voted.