What was Mayor Vincent Gray thinking when he sent Nat Gandhi a public letter questioning next year’s revenue estimates? When he called the chief financial officer’s estimates “unrealistically low,” said he was “perplexed” and requested Gandhi back up his numbers by answering a dozen questions, didn’t Gray know he was directly attacking the CFO’s statutory independence?

Gray and Gandhi go way back. They are the same vintage and worked over budgets when Gray was council chairman. Why didn’t Gray walk down the hall and ask Gandhi to squeeze a few more million out of the estimate? Gandhi might even have complied.

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