Topeka is fortunate to have a Mayor with both vision & backbone.

Bill Bunten's vision is evident in his efforts to address significant infrastructure problems.

His backbone shows in telling a majority on the city council he'll use his line-item veto to block spending money on a second new police helicopter.

You'll remember the Mayor originally vetoed the first effort to buy a second helicopter. The council could not override that veto.

Instead, it used a legal trick to try again. One Mayor Bunten could not veto.

Most of us remember that our parents and preacher told us that there's a big difference between doing something that's right and something that's legal.

Being legal doesn't make something right.

That's a message our Mayor learned, but a majority on the council didn't.

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