Yes, mayor, you were only dreaming of a consensus  Nick Jimenez
— The mayor's question sounded more like a plea. "Would I be
dreaming if I asked for a week," asked Mayor Joe Adame during
Wednesday's City Council meeting. This plaintive request came as
the council, once again, wrestled with setting the tax rate for
the coming city budget.  Yes, mayor, you are dreaming. In fact,
it would have taken a heavy dose of hallucinogenic drugs to
dream that there might be consensus where there hadn't been on
two previous votes on the tax rate. Adame even delayed the tax
rate vote from the previous week's agenda, supposedly to find
more savings and thus entice more votes. Instead, he got a
council meltdown for his troubles, as members sniped and snarled
at each other.  No, it wasn't pretty, mayor. Luckily, I only had
to see the verbal chair-tossing on a small computer screen via
video stream, but it couldn't have looked much better in live
action. Council members Mark Scott and Kevin Kieschnick had a go
at each other ov