Glenn Cashuric

Posts: 598
Date: Mar 23 8:12 PM, 2011

Check your sources..........again.

I did.  And I think that any suspicion or fears about behind-the-scenes subterfuge is unwarranted.

I don't like what's in the air. Reversing the city into a positive direction under public officials with an interest in honest government, or at least as honest as possible, has been a particularly daunting and challenging task.  It's also been an expensive task.  It's been substantially eventful in terms of sacrifice and risk.  It's been politically bloody in those trenches.

Let's be honest.  Nobody on that council has cured cancer.  That's the problem with not putting the mayor in his place even though there have been ample opportunities to do so.  An across-the-board tax cut sounds and plays great, but were there better alternatives?  Will the parking program even be implemented since the mayor now has no incentive to play along?  Missed opportunties galore.

But the council has been a collective step in the right direction.  And Pat Rogan has played a big part.

It's disturbing enough that a school kid sits in the place where a mature, vested adult belongs  Like who?  You needed three who could win.  He won. but it gets more disturbing when his political ambitions/loyalties sound/reflect in disrespect for a.) what's best for the people who pay the bills in this city; I think he's doing fine.  He's a good counterbalance for the rest. b.) the accomplishment of securing a supermajority; The supermajority was a perfect storm that is extraordinarily hard not only to replicate but also to even keep intact.  It requires running the table every two years. and c.) recovery from 8 years of Doherty corruption, graft and theft.  Mr. Rogan is not enabling any of that.

Pat Rogan is too young, immature and stupid to understand loyalty to the sacrifices and energy that elected him.  Oh, let's talk loyalty.  He doesn't live it because he doesn't know how to live it. He's not thinking about the people. He's thinking about Pat Rogan!  That's politics.  He should not be required to sacrifice himself for no reason.  There hasn't been anything monumental enough to require such an action.

Whoever it is that is on the mentor end of Pat's puppet strings is stupid.  Clear and simple. Stupid. That person(s) has already three-times exposed Pat. Who's getting angry?  Fay?  He's not there to rubber-stamp.  That was the main reason for bouncing Mrs. Gatelli and Mrs. Fanucci-whatever.

Pat Rogan has not yet fully paid those toiled for him.  Neither has anybody else, particularly the Appointed One.  He is obligated to pay it in full.

His loyalty belongs to the people who paid for it. The right to the expectation of his loyalty was well-settled when he received our loyalty in the voting booth. 

That term of loyalty is four years. The conclusion of that four years is when he can safely announce a departure from said obligation to the benefit of his own political ambitions.  And he will be there for a full four years.  Will he be able to "supermajoritize" for the last two?  Unknown, but probably. Not a problem.

Breach of Rogan's loyalty due and owing imports consequences that will be directly/indirectly attendant to his political ambitions, and pregnant with collateral damage of the republican kind without mercy.

If you have damaging information (of the legal sort) about any of the Republicans, particularly a candidate who will most likely become the next minority commissioner, you should make it public.  Basing your decision on what Mr. Rogan does on council runs contrary to your purported mission with this site.

GC

P.S.  I like this font.

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