04-08-2019, 03:53 PM
" . . . silliness (greed) followed by either incompetence or fecklessness (lack of meaningful plan)"
Harry Kim was guilty of all of the above, and the tone was set when he asked for hundreds of millions of dollars without any indication as to what it would be spent for. Things went downhill fast from there. Harry's retirement can't come too soon, but I shudder to think who we might get next.
Ruderman is zero sum proposition in this situation, and his eye poking, while sometimes amusing and on point, hasn't been helpful overall. Ilagan might have done us more good in this particular situation, but he badly overplayed his hand by running for senator. I know a lot of people who were angry at him, not for opposing Ruderman, but for leaving the council just when he seemed to have started figuring out how to work it.
Harry Kim was guilty of all of the above, and the tone was set when he asked for hundreds of millions of dollars without any indication as to what it would be spent for. Things went downhill fast from there. Harry's retirement can't come too soon, but I shudder to think who we might get next.
Ruderman is zero sum proposition in this situation, and his eye poking, while sometimes amusing and on point, hasn't been helpful overall. Ilagan might have done us more good in this particular situation, but he badly overplayed his hand by running for senator. I know a lot of people who were angry at him, not for opposing Ruderman, but for leaving the council just when he seemed to have started figuring out how to work it.