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There’s a reason children aren’t allowed to do grown up things, like drive cars. They can’t handle the power of such a machine. Speaking of power, machines and Bakersfield City Councilman Zack Scrivner (weren’t we speaking of Scrivner?), someone needs to take away that boy’s Hot Wheels. That someone ought to be political consultant Mark Abernathy. But clearly, the lust for one more vote on the Bakersfield City Council clouded his judgment. So, Abernathy’s political machine cranked up to run over Harold Hanson, apparently because the Ward Five councilman vexed Scrivner during a vote last winter regarding city employee health care. Hanson crafted a compromise that saved the city $285,000, as opposed to $383,000. The measure passed 4-3 with the Abernathy bloc — Scrivner, Jacquie Sullivan and Ken Weir — voting in opposition. Afterward, Scrivner was furious. “Harold, you’re finished,” he told Hanson, in earshot of...
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