SacNative comment-31587 2010-06-26T20:58:50Z 2010-06-26T20:58:50Z Jim, Sac High started improving when Johnson got out of the way. Ask any of the teachers. Some pretty sensible people stepped down from St hope's board because of the way Johnson ran it. I'm not saying that things don't need shaking up. I'm suggesting it's become pretty clear that KJ is not the one who will do it to positive effect. For me, this has nothing to do with political parties. It has everything to do with the integrity and skills of the man. Maybe we need some form of strong mayor. I don't want KJ to be a strong mayor. SacNative 2010-06-26T20:58:50Z SacNative comment-31541 2010-06-26T03:10:12Z 2010-06-26T03:10:12Z Mr. Barton, I wish more people were able to read your very reasonable, clear restatement of your position. You're right to distrust true believers on either side. But why is it that this mayor has excited such animosity? There are few politicians at so early a stage of their career who alienate people as much as he does. It's a remarkable lesson in polarization. I voted for the guy, I have to admit, because I had hopes that he would energized city government. Instead, he has imported his style of running St HOPE into municipal government and that just won't work. I have never regretted a vote as much as I regret this one. SacNative 2010-06-26T03:10:12Z SacNative comment-31427 2010-06-25T14:20:00Z 2010-06-25T14:20:00Z Excellent. Well-reasoned. Puts the Sac Bee's editors in the shade. I'll start reading this site more often. SacNative 2010-06-25T14:20:00Z SacNative comment-31063 2010-06-23T20:57:27Z 2010-06-23T20:57:27Z Hmm. I didn't mean to imply anything about the AZ law. I refer only to the way he frames issues in his head. Let's see if he gets that Dept of Ed. The issue about Rhee's speaking to federal agents on his behalf got a little bit of coverage in the D.C. press, so they both may be damaged goods in the long run. Will Duncan want to risk taking on someone whom federal agents are rumored to still be investigating? The funding issue, I hear, has been dropped. But then there's the other stuff... SacNative 2010-06-23T20:57:27Z SacNative comment-31057 2010-06-23T20:34:45Z 2010-06-23T20:34:45Z BBBBmer has called it. Just wait. I do have a strong feeling that he'll go away. He has a history of packing up his toys and leaving. Going into politics has made public a side of him that many insiders and stalwarts have had much experience of. He chews people out in public to shame them. I don't envy Rhee or her children when they enter the Patriarch's household! Privately, he's completely nuts on the question of a woman's place as subordinate to her husband! He hasn't the slightest idea about how democracy works, not because he's stupid. We disagree there, BBBBmer. You're right, he's naive, delusional, and sad. But he's very smart. It's just that he's a bigger narcissist than he is smart. He "shuns" people. He didn't use that word lightly when he first proposed the boycott of AZ. His problem is that he has a messianic view of his mission in life. Too many of the people immediately around him buy into it. I wish we could section out all the racist and right-wing stuff, because it's distracting from the main issue. Simply on his own merits or demerits, he is unfit for public office. SacNative 2010-06-23T20:34:45Z SacNative comment-31055 2010-06-23T20:09:23Z 2010-06-23T20:09:23Z Sheedy's whispered aside was right on the money. That 30 min harangue explains a lot about his past inability to succeed at anything he tried after he left the NBA. He has always bullied and shamed people, but he refuses see that that is what he does. But that's because he believes he's on a divine mission -- one that he neglects to notice he keeps failing. SacNative 2010-06-23T20:09:23Z