If you’ve read your City Hall Hustle this week, then you know that Bill Spelman hopes to win his old job back, as a Place 5 city council member. But after a single term, 1997 – 2000, Spelman stepped down when the Attorney General issued an opinion that he couldn’t collect his LBJ School prof’s salary and a city salary at the same time.
How would he solve that problem in another term? By serving as a city council member without taking any pay for the job, he posits. That makes public service more like public servitude – handily trumping Jennifer Kim’s refusal to take a pay raise.
This article appears in October 24 • 2008.