[Rich, 17:00]
I'm hoping tonight will finally be decision time on Symmes. I doubt there will be much new said before the vote is ultimately taken. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I expect a roll-call vote will be forced (not necessarily a bad thing -- this is a very important vote and having people go on the record is more than reasonable). If it passes, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an attempt to overturn the vote via referendum, but I think such an attempt would fail. In the unlikely chance that anyone reads this before the vote, e-mail me and tell me where you think the vote will be on a fails, fails-squeaker, passes-squeaker, passes-comfortably, passes-blowout scale.