With only a few days left before the deadline Jim Gray finished e-filing his taxes yesterday, after printing out his copy of his returns staffers around the office started to notice that the former vice mayor was claiming current vice mayor Steve Kay as a dependent. “We all assumed Steve was still on the former vice mayor’s insurance but I guess we really didn’t realize he was still a full dependent,” one staffer told us.

“Look, Steve doesn’t really know the value of a dollar, and perhaps that’s my fault. I always wanted him to have the best of everything. It’s fine for now while he gets on his feet, but he needs to know that he can’t stay in the basement of the Mayor’s mansion forever,” Gray said when reached for comment. “I give him an allowance but I’m pretty much responsible for his well being so I claimed him as a dependent. Without me, the man would be eating nothing but Butterfingers, and and whenever he eats a Butterfinger he says ‘UH OH BUTTERFINGER’ so it’s really best for both of us if he stops eating them all the time.”

Gray continued, “I’m just trying to help him out right now, this isn’t permanent. Once he learns how to manage his money and everything he’ll either have to get his own place or I’ll start charging him rent. We’re just still working hard on some money management stuff though. I really wish vice mayor Kay had gotten the business acumen of his sister Mary.”

The former vice mayor concluded by talking about the strides the current vice mayor is making. “He’s making big steps though, professionally speaking. He’s getting more and more confident in his own independence day by day.  Recently he’s come around to understanding that Kay is his last name, so when he introduces himself now, it no longer sounds like he’s asking if it’s okay that his name is Steve. ‘I’m Steve Kay,'” the mayor pronounced authoritatively, “Not, ‘I’m Steve, K?'”