That's not the case with Maroun.

If he wants something, all he needs to do is to pick up a phone and things get moving for him toot-sweet because he has far more resources at his own disposal (i.e. Prop 5 & 6).

Orr's got an interesting balancing act to perform (no pun intended), providing city services on a city designed with almost 2-million people in mind, for an actual population at about 600k (and falling), and far less than that actually paying anything at all.

Now I know why the guv waited for announcing this decision during one of the colder times of the year.