I suspect the power elite is cautiously, surreptitiously, gently, sidling up to some of the ankle-biters and suggesting that they pursue the City’s highest legislative office come elections in two years. The goal is to subdue the bomb-throwing anarchists so they’ll pursue the more conciliatory approach necessary for the general election.
Big Money, operating through back channels, is putting the bug in their ear to reduce the obstructionism.
How many City Council reps have their eye on the gavel? (Are they gavel gazing?) How else do you get nine people to keep a secret? You can’t tell me that City Council isn’t sitting on some pretty explosive secrets. Otherwise, why sit on them? Why all those closed-door Executive Sessions? Why not confront the taxpayers’ impending crises with straight talk?
If you get all the dogs fighting over the same bone, you can eat the meat in peace.
The future is full of pie crust promises, reconciled with the trusty phrase, “That was then, and this is now.” Ask Joyce Wilson how that works out.
John Falvey?