Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board Meetings are Fun

Most government meetings are boring. Here in Charlotte, we've got the Charlotte Mecklenburg School Board meetings every other Tuesday. They are great!! There's a hard left majority that does everything for the children, then there's three renegades(and now sometimes four with a new member that was just appointed) that think too much money is spent in the wrong places. It makes for fun television Tuesday evenings. Tonight, they were passing their 1.1 billion dollar budget. Now it goes to the majority left county board of commisioners that will certainly pass it next month. That meeting won't be as much fun.
Pete Kaliner is News-Talk 1110 WBT's(www.wbt.com) intrepid government reporter. Normally we sit in the media pit at the Government Center Chamber and laugh at politicians. Then he get's serious and files reports for the next morning. Pete's intelligence makes him such a good reporter who I'm glad I align with politically because I'd never want to debate him.
Mercer was the lucky reporter covering the meeting this evening. I arrived at 8:10 and she already had the package written and the soundbites logged. That's what a great reporter does. Oh, and she also cut the majority of the package whilst I was tuning in. Mercer doesn't suck. She makes faces like this when she realizes she's a badass.