"The Delaware County Council has concluded that its citizens just fell off a turnip truck. They think that they can tell us magical fairy tales and, like a bunch of five-year-olds, we will just believe.

On November 1, the executive director delivered to Council a proposed budget — more about that later — which had, at the least, a structural $76 million dollar deficit. The reason it was only $76 million was that they increased taxes twelve months ago by $8 million. Without that, the deficit would have been $84 million.

Let that sink in: the Democrats have increased spending by at least $80 million since they took over the county government in 2020."