A $60,000 celebration?

Don't look now but the Jackson County legislature wants to throw a $60,000 birthday party celebration

Yeah.

But it's for Martin Luther King, Jr.

There's a good idea. Not.

It seems former rocket scientist and current Jackson County Legislator James Tindall came up with this beaut.

And get this--he wants to take these funds from "the county's health and anti-drug funds."

Fellow Legislator Bob Spence said it best when he "wondered what Dr. King would think" of such a transfer.

Fortunately, "Teresa Garza Ruiz added that such spending was difficult to justify given county layoffs and other cuts."

Thank you, Ms. Ruiz.

Not to be outdone, Tindall was defended by Henry Rizzo and Dennis Waits. Mr. Rizzo called it "promoting diversity" and called it an important "'watermark' for any community that seeks success."

And that would be how? By throwing a birthday party for a the Rev. King?

Look, someone run down there and tell these clowns that you can't throw an expensive birthday party if you're broke.

Apparently their houses don't run like yours and mine.

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