Considering the rancor and rhetoric around the Port Covington public financing subsidy – melodrama that has played out for months despite the “done-ness” of the City Hall-backed deal – Councilman Carl Stokes’ moment during the roll call vote last night was apt.

Stokes made extended remarks instead of declaring a simple “yes,” “no” or “pass” on the $660-million bond bill.

He praised his own taxation committee saying “they did a tremendous job.”

He complained that the Rawlings-Blake administration had provided “very little support” as the panel combed through 600 pages of material “to properly and strongly vet the bills.”

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