My pal Robert Miller put out a real good take on CM-Elect Andrew Burks’ fundraiser that was attended by a number of H-Town’s key players. Since the election nine days ago some of have said that Andrew is a one term council member. Now that is kind of silly since I don’t consider Andrew’s win a fluke. He had folks behind him. They may not have been folks that I agree with but they were still players. Liberals/progressives weren’t for Andrew but guess what? They sat on their arses and didn’t turn out to vote. What makes folks thing they can take Andrew out in two years. He will have a year and a half of or so of working with The Mayor and City Council on running this city. He’ll be making appearances across the city as a sitting Council member. Heck, he will be Council Member Andrew Burks.
Like I said, it is kind of silly to start labeling Andrew as a one termer. You have to have somebody willing to run against him. Next time he will have more money and he will have more endorsing groups behind him. I for one am willing to see how he serves the public. Check out Robert’s take here.
Name the Hall of Fame great that led the NL in ERA five years in a row and then retired?
Speaking of being silly, I kind of think it is silly and not helpful to the process when the so-called leaders try to tell folks who the candidates should be. Like here in HD 134. There are a number of folks not satisfied about being told that a certain Ann Johnson should be the only candidate. Nobody has ever heard of her. How and why are Dems supposed to be enthused about her candidacy in the general election?
Same goes for HD 144, instead of reaching out and building Dem support in the Pasadena area by embracing Pasadena CM Ornaldo Ybarra, folks are pulling a Ben Reyes style move and supporting HCC Trustee Mary Ann Perez. That is old style politics that does absolutely nothing to build the Dem Latino base. That has a bad smell and taste and shame on those leaders.
Commentary is glad that Gen Wu jumped into the HD 137 race and is standing up to the BS of silly folks telling us who should be our candidates. Run Gene, run!
Commentary went to the game yesterday with My Best Friend and we lost – bummer.
Hall of Fame great Sandy Koufax of course led the NL in ERA from 1962-1966 then retired after the 1966 season.
Speaking of more silliness, the H-Town City Council is fixing to do a little more regulating that has some folks upset.
Check out this Op-Ed from this weekend’s Chron.
Do we really need this? Are we paying attention to what the H-Town voters just said this past week and last month? Why do we want to keep p__ing off folks?
I don’t have anything to report from The Yard.
Camposcommunications' Blog 