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Bill Paxon's announcement that he's leaving politics when his term ends, so shocks the pundits that some of them (O'Beirne, Al Hunt on Capital Gang ) accept his advertised reason--the standard Washington lie that he wants to spend more time with his family.
More recently, home rule has been effectively suspended for a better reason--the city has bankrupted itself.