Can you spot the missing yard sign?

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And that's exactly the way it should work, because ...

The predicted gutting of Speck begins as Mayor Jeff Gahan gives the finger to complete streets advocates.

If you are an advocate of Jeff Speck's downtown street network proposals, and yet a Gahan for Mayor sign remains embedded in your yard, it's time to gaze into the mirror and realize that you've been misled, all along, by the sitting mayor and his inner circle. Don't feel bad. You're not the only one.

It's been more than a year since Speck came to New Albany, and Jeff Gahan has yet to speak coherently and openly about complete streets. At this point, it's naive to imagine he will. In fact, Gahan does not believe that an 18-month delay in (only maybe sort of possibly) implement what now surely will be a watered-down version can cost him votes.

If he thought it would, he'd calibrate differently, wouldn't he?

Consequently, these votes must be withheld. There's just no other way to view it, is there? To paraphrase the Bookseller, calculated indifference toward the concerns of street grid reform advocates constitutes a compelling electoral metric.