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From the Nashville Scene's annual Boner Awards, posted last month:

Harder to kill than a George A. Romero zombie—yet possessing half the IQ points—the shameful English Only bill survived to plague yet another year. Unfazed by a legal maneuver that would have kept it off the ballot, its chief proponent, council member Eric Crafton, rallied enough signatures to demand a special election. That's right, folks: Thanks to Crafton, at a time when people are losing jobs in this cash-strapped city, Nashville will have to spend an estimated half-million taxpayer dollars to answer whether all municipal business should be conducted in English. The best part? If ratified (shudder), the bill wouldn't even save the city money, since the services it would eliminate aren't even offered.

The on-topic part of this: we're spending half a million dollars on a special election to decide on this senseless, useless, hurtful bill. Meanwhile Metro Council couldn't find enough money to keep all the buses running.

You've already paid for this election, so go vote in it. Preferably No.

# posted by dotsandlines @ 9:25 PM