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February 26, 2008
23 Skidoo! Ron Steals the Other Team's Mascot!
Ron Littlefield today issued a mayoral proclamation, that basically gave the middle finger to the City of Atlanta on our behalf. Today is Give Our Georgia Friends A Drink Day, per our mayor. You should take a minute to read the proclamation, because it really says a lot about who Ron is and the direction our city is(n't) going.
To address the first part, Ron Littlefield gets all giddy about this kind of made-for-tv-news gesture because politics is all a game to him. It certainly isn't business and that's why NOTHING IS GOING ON AT CITY HALL.
I'm assuming he found a way to pay for a truck full of bottled water to be delivered to Atlanta through some private means (though not his own pocket--never that.). But this isn't the lead up to the big game versus our rival school. His gesture is an embarrassment and I'm shocked that he'd be so short-sighted as to do it. It doesn't address the real issue of Georgia trying to steal St. Elmo from us, but it does stand a chance to piss them off enough to keep trying. And the bit where his assistant is delivering the water wearing a coonskin cap and head-to-toe buckskins is jaw-droppingly stupid. We're trying to sell Chattanooga as the hippest new spot to plant your new-media, high-tech company and he's making us out to be hillbillies? I know he can't seem to do anything to proactively help our city, but does he have to make it hard for those who are actually working? Astonishing.
Remember the dress-up party Ron threw to re-open our modernized City Hall? This is the same thing. It's always the week of homecoming for Ron Littlefield and he's the head of the float committee. Except that this isn't a Mickey Rooney movie, and we deserve more than a head cheerleader as our mayor.
After you read the smart-alec proclamation, did you laugh? Were you amused that your civic leader had pulled so childish a stunt? Maybe you were, or maybe you rolled your eyes. What I wonder is, if you voted for Ron Littlefield in 2005, do you regret your vote?
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Posted by Billy Blades at 11:46 PM | TrackBack
February 20, 2008
Potential Mayoral Candidates: You've Been Warned.
I'm sure you all saw Michael Davis' article in the Times last week titled 'Littlefield Currently Faces No Challenge For Re-election."
Like they taught him in journalism school, Davis put the good stuff up front. In the 2nd graph he quotes Ron saying:
“I would like not to have to devote so much attention to a potentially divisive and difficult campaign,” he said. “I’d like to keep working with the county and the Chamber and not have my attention drawn away to deal with diversions like a tumultuous and difficult campaign.”
He never even considered that the campaign could be a contest between two intelligent, well-meaning people who both have the good of the community at heart, but might disagree on how to go about making their vision for a well-run city come to pass.
Nope. Ron Littlefield, who is, make no mistake, the Worst Mayor this town has Ever seen, is letting all potential candidates know right up front that he'll get just as down-and-dirty as he did the last time. If you want your reputation smeared beyond recognition, go ahead, run for mayor. His Rovian minions are just dying to go to work on the fool that would dare to try to unseat him.
Ron Littlefield is the Hillary Clinton of Tennessee Valley politics. He will do and say anything to get and keep power. Why? Why did he want to be mayor so desperately when he's done nothing to show for it? Power. Right Billy Long? Isn't power it's own reward? Well, plus the money. Don't forget the money.
While the national democrats seem to be rejecting the win-at-all-cost Clintonian tactics, it's because they have a different, better choice. Will Chattanooga find an 'Obama' to run against this man? I know I need some Change I Can Believe In, right here in River City.
By the way, David M at Rabbit Valley Road wrote something about the shame of the Hamilton County Democratic Party. He's right and I hope they arrest every single official--democrat or republican--that sees public service as some kind of right to line their pockets while gleefully violating the public trust and more to the point, the law.
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