Who's The Boss?

I caught a little bit of Knoxville's City Council meeting on channel 12 last night...right after I watched a few restaurant/store owners squirm uncomfortably while grasping at (drinking) straws to straight-forward questions from the Beer Board.  The most popular answer among the under-age alcohol servers was that their employee had missed, not the year, but the month on the child's purchaser's fake i.d. driver's license. People, people. That lie explanation may have actually worked once years ago, but now that every petitioner for the past several years has used it, it just doesn't fly. Why not try the vanity defense?
"My employee is so vain..."
And this is where the Beer Board says in unison (channeling Ed McMahon) "How vain is she?"
"My employee is so vain, she won't wear her glasses, so she can't read the date."

As I said, I watched a few minutes of the City Council meeting before I turned it to Jeopardy, and I thought it was worth mentioning that not only did Marilyn Roddy withdraw her name from consideration for interim mayor, she mandated strongly suggested that any other City Councilperson who might decide to run for mayor should do the same thing. So help me get this straight, Ms. Roddy. You have decided you don't want to be the interim mayor, so therefore, you are the boss of everyone else who might be considering the position? Is that how it works? Or should I say, is that how you work, because if it is, the voters had better beware.