One tiny Transit Debate Observation
Mar. 21st, 2012 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidge... well, two closely related ones, actually.
I do not understand WTF Ford can be thinking. First, there was his reaction to the report late last week: dismissing it as "biased" and "hogwash" before it was released. It would have been so much better for his "side" if he had waited until Monday and claimed to be dismissing it after reading it.
And then there was his only contribution to today;s debate -- moving a reconvening in early April; a move which was bound to fail, and did, and contributed nothing to the debate at all, even at the level of his brother or Giorgio Mammoliti.
It's bizarro-world enough at City Hall, with right-wing counsellors pushing for new taxes and left-wing ones pushing for fiscal prudence. Ford seems to be stranded: he can't back his allies (because they want taxes) or the centrists (because they're putting transit in the middle of roads, and in any case he probably hates Stintz with a fiery hate right now).
I do not understand WTF Ford can be thinking. First, there was his reaction to the report late last week: dismissing it as "biased" and "hogwash" before it was released. It would have been so much better for his "side" if he had waited until Monday and claimed to be dismissing it after reading it.
And then there was his only contribution to today;s debate -- moving a reconvening in early April; a move which was bound to fail, and did, and contributed nothing to the debate at all, even at the level of his brother or Giorgio Mammoliti.
It's bizarro-world enough at City Hall, with right-wing counsellors pushing for new taxes and left-wing ones pushing for fiscal prudence. Ford seems to be stranded: he can't back his allies (because they want taxes) or the centrists (because they're putting transit in the middle of roads, and in any case he probably hates Stintz with a fiery hate right now).
