Big news: The Highwayman is back!
"And You Thought it Was Safe to Get Back in the Water"
I'm not back on the horse yet, but I am cleaning the saddle in preparation. Onward & upward!
What Lloyd has endured actually might be worse than a typical city council meeting … and speaking of the council, today we finally learn why Slippery Larry Kochert has chosen to opt out:
Field big for New Albany council; All nine posts up for grabs in fall, by Dick Kaukas (short shelf life for Courier-Journal links).
In District 4, Larry Kochert, a six-term incumbent, decided not to run. So has Beverly Crump, the District 5 incumbent. Their decisions mean the council is guaranteed to have at least two new members.
Kochert, the current president of the council, said part of the reason he decided against seeking another term is that many council members seem to be "headstrong" and "not willing to work together and compromise."
In the past, he said, even when there were more Republicans on the council, "we seemed to be able to work together better than this group has."
Evidently there are no mirrors in the Kochert household, only oily disingenuousness imbibed like laudanum. For more on this character trait, see:
City council president Larry Kochert admits to breaking the law, but had fingers crossed behind his back at the time.
Finally, as proof that one need not check decency at the door as a prerequisite for political involvement, there’s the lone voice of at-large council candidate John Gonder … making sense again.
Use It or Lose It
… I was reminded of an episode of Seinfeld in which George is trying to combine the satisfaction of two appetites, one of which is for food. As George tells Jerry of his plan, Jerry utters a candidate for best line ever as he says, "George we're trying to have a civilization here."
That is precisely the trouble with a short-sighted view of infrastructural inattention. We can avoid the pain of taxes. We can avoid the pain of decisions. But we are trying to have a civilization here …
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Forgot to point out that it's Day 34 of the Steve Price blogwatch. Last posting was March 6. Could it really be that he's exhausted the possibilities after lesss than three months on-line?
My guess is it's time to watch out for reruns. I think CM Price has run through his repertoire and is gearing up to start over.
Also hats off to John Gonder. Good observation!
All I know is I am very optimistic that change is coming. If we can survive the next 8 months, then the 12 months for the "new council" to get organized, then the 4 months for the council to get to know each other, then the 5 months........
Seriously, things are starting to look up!
I think what Larry meant was no one would go his way so he gives up. He feels like New Albany has progressing , he has done all he could to stop it and he finaly realizes that the progressives win this round.
csd619,
me too!
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