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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
And the Decision IS…..
....NO MAYOR!!!
People in Pueblo are slow to accept change. Cautious is probably a better word for it.
And whereas the people who advocated for a ‘strong mayor’ think that it was their being out-spent by the opposition camp, I have my doubts. Rather, I think the people of Pueblo were thinking along the lines of that old proverb….
Happier with the ‘devil’ they know than with the one they don’t know.
And, as is always said, “The ‘devil’ is in the details.” And the people of Pueblo were totally unfamiliar with the details of how either a ‘strong mayor’ or a ‘weak mayor’ would work out. In the first place. The ‘strong mayor’ camp didn’t really provide evidence enough to convince the people their plan was a good one. Nor did they do a good job of countering the arguments of the ‘no mayor’ camp.
As for the ‘weak mayor’. Nobody gave that camp much opportunity to express their arguments. Especially the Pueblo Chieftain which did not include them in the debate at PCC.
There are many more reasons to why this came down the way it did. And I invite the advocates of the ‘strong mayor’ camp to express their opinions about that in the comments section of this thread. Click on the word “Comments” in the box, below.
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TO: All
RE: An Additional Thought….....on the politics of the strong mayor issue.
It was nigh impossible for the strong mayor camp to counter the argument by the no mayor camp that it was a political move in the part of the county Democrats.
How so?
Look at the make-up of the committee? Terry Hart — Pueblo County Democratic Party Chairman. Bill Thiebaut — Democrat District Attorney. Dr. Colette Carter — Rag’n Cajin professor at CSU-Pueblo who, if you’re smart, you won’t mention the words (1) Republican nor (2) Christian, especially together, in her vicinity.
It was pretty obvious to me that the no-mayor camp had a good argument in that area.
And I think it was the LAST thing people of Pueblo wanted was to drag in all the dirty antics found in the bi-partisan political realm. We’ve got more important things to do than argue about the Kennedys, Dodds, Jeffersons, Cunninghams, etc., etc., etc. That’s just time wasted in doing little, if anything, for Pueblo.
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