Local Trivia UPDATE: Local City still like E.T. game

In a plot twist anticipated by loyal moviegoers -- and Democrats -- the nefariousness of the Republican E.L.G.O.A. (aka mayor) has been revealed!

The $3 million deficit was the result not of the state reneging on promised education funds, but of bad budgeting by the mayor at the beginning of the year.

The mayor budgeted $72.5 million for education coming from the state, despite irrefutable evidence that the state would not allocate this much to Local City public education. Last year, the state gave $64 million. This year, the state raised that amount by what Our Hero Tru-worthy said was an unprecedented percent increase, to $70.

The fault, in other words, is in E.L.G.O.A.'s budget.

This is what O.H. Tru-worthy meant when he claimed mismanagement, and the source of the tiff during which one alderman was told to "rot in hell."

Indeed, this is like the inevitable scene where the supposed father-figure reveals himself to be the evil mastermind behind the "getting-rid-of-Our-Hero" plot the whole time. It happened in Ella Enchanted; it happened in Iron Man; it happened in Local City.

Sadly, unlike in the movies, blasting E.L.G.O.A. off the face of the earth (though reluctantly, and thus morally) or allowing him to be done in by his own poisonous ambition won't ameliorate the situation. O.H. Tru-worthy, sidekick Surewould and the rest of the band of merry aldermen are going to have to deal with this mess, almost certainly by extracting the funds from the Fund Balance account.

I guess that's the main difference between politics and action movies.

(I mean, Arnold is governor of California. What other differences could there still be?)