Mayor Joe Adame said he and Escobar have discussed his eventual retirement since he took office in May 2009.

"(Escobar) did say that he wanted to get to that budget," Adame said. "I'll leave it at that." 
  The rumors have been swirling about the Mayor's dissatisfaction with the City Manager for a long time. The Mayor just didn't have the votes (5) he would need to remove Angel.
  I wonder who moved off the fence?
In this morning's Caller/Times the City has issued a press release denying the story.
   
    Time for a poll question:

    

  Nancy Pelosi had some choice words for the American public the other day: Shut up.

If you’ve got an opinion about the N.Y. mosque controversy, better keep it to yourself or you could end up under investigation in the House Star Chamber. 
  Pelosi says she wants to know how opposition to the mosque is being “ginned up.” She wants to know who’s funding this anger. She wants to know what the hell is wrong with the 61 percent of Americans who evidently disagree with her views.
 I've often wondered what kind of person could vote for her...this explains everything...

PALIN’S MAGIC TOUCH: Sarah Palin has a magic touch – that’s the only clear conclusion to be drawn from Tuesday's primary results. She backed five candidates in Arizona, Florida, and Alaska—and they all won. In the Republican senatorial primary in Alaska, big-spending incumbent Lisa Murkowski looks like she may lose her challenge from the right from Tea Party favorite Joe Miller. In the Florida Democratic Senate primary, late-starting rich guy Jeff Greene couldn't defeat Rep. Kendrick Meek by calling him a career politician. In the Republican gubernatorial primary in the same state, however, late-starting rich guy Rick Scott was able to defeat state Attorney General Bill McCollum by painting him as a political insider. Twenty of the candidates she's endorsed have won. Ten have lost. What will the Palin endorsement mean in the midterm elections in November?  

  "I did not think that the pro-Muslim/pro-Islamist and anti-Western propaganda could get any worse--and yet it just has."

  RUSH ROCKS!

CALLER:  My question is, I really view these upcoming elections in November as probably the most important at least in my adult lifetime.  I feel like it's our last chance to turn back the tide of socialism.  My question to you is do you think -- number one, do you think -- we can take back the Senate; and number two, which races do you feel the mosque issue might play a key role in? RUSH:  I think... Yes, I think we can take the Senate.  I actually think -- and I will go out on a limb because in the big scheme, it's early.  In politics, anything can happen at any time.  And it's just, what, the middle of August, just past the middle of August.  But on the House side, I think it's going to be a bigger blowout than any of the inside-the-Beltway experts think.  I think it's going to be bigger than '94.  I think the morning after people who are already expecting this to be a big blowout are going to be shocked. I mean on the Democrat side.  They're already trying to condition the fall here by saying, "Well, '94 was a surprise.  We know it's coming this year." That isn't going to stop anything.  It's going to be bigger than they think.

They're going to be shocked. They really believed, in 2006 and 2008, that those elections meant that we had become a leftist -- not a center left, but a leftist -- socialist country.  They really thought that's what that meant.  And then they create this perfect character of Obama.  They create a resume that's perfect, that doesn't require any proof.  "Smartest guy in the world!" We never saw the grades.  "Law Review!" We never saw anything he wrote.  I mean, they create created a character; a perfect, perfect figure in every way. "He's smarter than everybody else! He's brighter, better spoken.  Better resume.  Unique! Unlike anything we'd ever seen," and they got 53 or 54% of people to buy it, which is really not a big number, considering all of the advantages they had, all the bias, all the unified approaches in the media. But they still thought that this meant one of two things: Either they had cowed the country into believing leftism-socialism was the best for them, or that the country had actually become that.  Now they're learning and they're shocked and angry and mad that that's not the reality -- and they lash out, as only they can, at the people.  It's not Obama's fault for being unacceptable.  It's not Obama's fault for not representing the greatness of America.  It's our fault for not understanding greatness of Obama. It's our fault for not understanding and accepting the perfect, phony baloney resume of the guy that they created (and that he lived off of, by the way).  So here's this guy who's Mr. Perfect! His words alone were going to change the world. We find out that his words haven't changed diddly-squat.  Obama has found out that the magic that he had in university that turned a C into an A -- that made him a special person and put him at the top of every class he was in -- is gone.   THE REST IS HERE.