Mayor and crew do not play well

Don't the antics at Auburn City Hall over the last year remind you of that dreaded elementary report card comment "doesn't play well with others"?

If anyone thought the situation would get better with the New Year, the shenanigans over the order in which members of city council vote is just the latest installment of the ridiculous.

The current elongated voting order folderal started when Councilor Robert Hunter moved to change the 13-year-old practice of having the mayor vote last, to first. He wanted to make Mayor Timothy C. Lattimore take a "leadership role" (isn't he one of a group that tries to ensure the mayor has no more power than themselves?). The mayor seemed to take such a change personally, and rightfully so (though his repetitive rants that the public should remember that this was an election year could have been done without).