Well at least the FBI won't have to manufacture a terror event to force the City to join, like last time.

It wasn't meant to be "sarcastic." It was just a direct, descriptive quote, a word he used, not mine, to characterize his vote—and apparently a good reminder why one-word quotes when used earnestly are often poor choices.

I'm not really buying that. You don't often pass up a chance to get in a jab at Hales, even when he does something innocuous --e.g., why is it so impossible to imagine that he guy truly DID struggle with how to vote on the JTTF? I can't think of any reason why that would be so hard to believe.

If you'd like the benefit of the doubt on earnestness, maybe you'll give it to him sometime?