Bluegill will be here on Wednesday with commentary on tonight's 3rd district council debate, but until then -- and whether or not experience has been the teacher -- sleep well knowing that the best students in attendance learned something that most already knew: We have two excellent, qualified, crackerjack challengers ... and an anti-intellectual train wreck of a one-chord incumbent who predicted "some kind of rebellion" staged by "empty people selling their houses," and other familiar catechisms, homilies, clichés, repetitions, and regurgitations, and whose highly selective memory with respect to his own persistently obstructionist role in recent municipal history was glaringly in evidence throughout the evening.The event sponsors are to be commended for a professional and informative session. With luck, perhaps both adjectives can be applied to the next 3rd district councilman. Take it away, Jeff ...
Photo: Charlie Harshfield (upper left) and Maury Goldberg (upper right); Steve Price (bottom left) and S. Ellen Jones School's official "May Day" ideological signage (bottom right).
May 2 update: Maury Goldberg is posting his answers to the questions submitted the candidates prior to the debate. Go here: Candidate Questions.
I dont know any of the 3 candidates personally, but if first impressions mean anything, simply looking at the photos suggests a vast difference in character between the two challengers and the incumbent. I'm not suggesting that formal black tie evening attire was needed, but showing up to an organized debate wearing a t-shirt speaks volumes. Sheesh.
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