Wondering just what was behind the JeffCo Commission’s (or at least the majority’s) unseemly rush to approve a lobbying contract with relative unknown Book*Hill Partners? The Birmingham News reported yesterday that Michael Choy, a partner at Haskell Slaughter, says the whole thing was cooked up by Bill Slaughter (the attorney who advised the county on many of its lousy financial dealings) and Commission President Bettye Fine Collins, with a little help from Commissioner William Bell.