Political mutterings
Two interesting pieces today that take aim at local political dynamics:
- In the Inquirer, columnist Tom Ferrick writes his diary about mayoral race dramas, and specifically about whether various politicians are conniving to trade positions or whether those rumors are running on fumes.
- Meantime, over at the Daily News, columnist Jill Porter calls for term-limits for City Council, in part to prevent elderly members from outstaying their best years. Not likely to be popular, for a variety of reasons, many of which are captured by Mark Cohen in a comment here.
posted by ACM at 2:35 PM
5 Comments:
Term limits are a good thing. Effective politicians (the babies that get thrown out with the bath water) will surface somewhere else, working for the greater good. Ineffective politicians will not. Twelve years enough of tenure for a City Councilperson (if that's the limit set) is enough.
On David Cohen, no offense to him as a father, husband or human being, but he wasn't very effective for most of the time I observed him in Council (mid-1990s to present). Rep. Cohen cites resolutions - these are silly pieces of paper that mean nothing.
If you're going to cite your personal experience, it helps for you not to be anonymous.
Beyond that, input always welcome.
Take the ability to post anonymously off if you don't want anonymous posts. Otherwise, please don't complain about anonymouse posts.
I don't mind anonymous posts (and don't want to require anybody to register with Blogger!), but when you say "for most of the time I observed..." then we need a little context. You can give your initials, say "in my capacity as a lifelong political junkie," or "from the news coverage over the last decade" or whatever. Just give the reader some basis for knowing what to make of your input.
I guess that's the scientist in me, but I need data and context for it before I can get anything useful from the exchange.
"when I worked for the City for a major operating department"
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