The Truth: White yuppies for Mike Bell and more…
It was earlier this week when I first read our former Mayor’s column in the Sojourner’s Truth I’d be totally remiss in not pointing out a few of the articles that caught my attention this week. Jack Ford’s My View being one of them. Some thoughts on the ongoing EOPA saga are shared, as well as some comments concerning City Council and Mayoral prospects:
Last Sunday, Lee Conklin used my column in The Truth to raise the name of Councilman Mike Ashford in the mayoral race. Then, Conklin and Troy Neff commented on how many committee meetings Ashford has missed on City Council. Rubbish. Many council committee meetings are useless and the savvy councilmember can discern which meeting is must attend and which are not. When I was a council member and in the legislature, I often had conflicting appointments. So I would pick which meeting was the more important.
And more on Mike Ashford including:
Third, Mike Ashford can run from cover in 2009. He remains on council even with a loss for mayor if he runs. Maybe a mayoral run gets his name out there for a future run, or maybe he gets hot and wins the whole thing like Barack Obama.
Or, maybe Mike Bell gets in and takes the white yuppie support and blows everyone else away.
I had to laugh, not at the idea of either Mike running but I didn’t think we had that many yuppies left in Toledo.
There are quite a few other articles of merit in this week’s Truth, including one by Fletcher Word, entitled A Team of Rivals … Perhaps; A Team of Stars … Absolutely that I recommend. One that’s not political oriented at all but that I recommend is Interracial Dating: Love and Its Repercussions by Michael Hayes. While Michael is focusing mainly on relationships between those who are black and white, I remember some of my family’s reaction when they found out I was seriously involved with a man who was Puerto Rican. In time you would have never known that, my father who was the most “upset” ended up acting as if he had personally hand picked my husband. So when Hayes writes:
Sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and you don’t care if it comes in a package slightly different less acceptable in the eyes of others…you’re just happy to have what you’ve wanted.
That’s Love.
Yes…it is.
JAFO to the rescue…..but what will the black yuppies do?
December 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pm“Rubbish” on attendance? Choosing what is important and what is not? I guess if you don’t know what you don’t know that you can’t miss what you don’t attend.
Just remember: If city and county democrats were that good Toledo would be an island of prosperity.
December 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm