Common sense facts and numbers vs. non-sense bureaucrats: who will win?

Mark Sullivan is the finance director for the City of Rochester, but he's also something else: a bureaucrat.And what is the definition of a bureaucrat?In French, "bureau" is a desk, and bureaucracy is a government run by "people at desks," according to Merriam-Webster.Google's definition is less kind. It defines a bureaucrat as "an official in a government department, in particular, one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs."Sullivan penned the...