09-24-2008, 05:55 AM
Well, the primary was certainly interesting. Now what?
I confess that I don't know that much about Mr. Pilago, and what I have seen of him isn't very impressive. I don't think he takes money from anybody he shouldn't take money from, and I assume his heart is in the right place. My problem with him is he appears to be a continuation of the same type folks who were (for example) anti-geothermal 15 or 20 years ago. They were against geothermal because of the environment when in fact geothermal is undoubtedly the least environmentally harmful way to make electricity we have available to us. In other words, Mr. Pilago strikes me as having good intentions but very little actual knowledge. Couple that with a certainty of correctness and you have in some ways, on a local level, a liberal incarnation of George W. Bush.
Anyway, then you have Mr. Kenoi. What can I say about him other than he's profoundly disingenuous? He's tighter than a tick with all the good 'ol boys; everybody from the old time Democratic machine to the underworld, and everybody in between.
So, from my perspective we have a hell of a choice with these two. But, I guess I'll vote for Mr. Pilago as the lesser of two evils. Not that it will matter all that much because I'm pretty sure Billy boy will bury Mr. Pilago in the general. The way I figure it there will be 5,000 or 6,000 more people voting in the general than voted in the primary and most of them will go for Kenoi. So, even if Mr. Pilago picked up all the votes (which of course he won't) of the Lorraine/Stacy/Randy/etc. folks he will still come up short.
What will a Kenoi administration look like? Look up "patronage" and you'll know.
I confess that I don't know that much about Mr. Pilago, and what I have seen of him isn't very impressive. I don't think he takes money from anybody he shouldn't take money from, and I assume his heart is in the right place. My problem with him is he appears to be a continuation of the same type folks who were (for example) anti-geothermal 15 or 20 years ago. They were against geothermal because of the environment when in fact geothermal is undoubtedly the least environmentally harmful way to make electricity we have available to us. In other words, Mr. Pilago strikes me as having good intentions but very little actual knowledge. Couple that with a certainty of correctness and you have in some ways, on a local level, a liberal incarnation of George W. Bush.
Anyway, then you have Mr. Kenoi. What can I say about him other than he's profoundly disingenuous? He's tighter than a tick with all the good 'ol boys; everybody from the old time Democratic machine to the underworld, and everybody in between.
So, from my perspective we have a hell of a choice with these two. But, I guess I'll vote for Mr. Pilago as the lesser of two evils. Not that it will matter all that much because I'm pretty sure Billy boy will bury Mr. Pilago in the general. The way I figure it there will be 5,000 or 6,000 more people voting in the general than voted in the primary and most of them will go for Kenoi. So, even if Mr. Pilago picked up all the votes (which of course he won't) of the Lorraine/Stacy/Randy/etc. folks he will still come up short.
What will a Kenoi administration look like? Look up "patronage" and you'll know.