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A brouhaha erupts in Wellington over a largely ceremonial appointment of a council member as "Vice-Mayor." According to tradition, the council member with the most seniority gets tapped for that position. In this case, on a 3-2 vote, it went to the council member with the least. Check out the video at the beginning of the article. Click title for link.

The appointment is largely ceremonial, but the title typically goes to whomever is the most-senior member of the council yet to hold the post.

If tradition held Tuesday, Gerwig would have been appointed — not Greene, who is the most junior of the five council members. He was first elected in 2012.

“I think it’s an affront to me personally and an affront to women in general that the three of you would not designate me as vice-mayor,” Gerwig said at the close of Tuesday’s otherwise routine meeting. “I would think you would be smarter than this: to declare war on me and declare war on women.”