|
RACE FOR CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 7
Boling is smart extremely literate, Marti Emerald is... a television reporter
As we all eagerly await the mayor's speech tonight, I continue the countdown to the No. 3 story to watch for this year (which could easily be the best one of them all):
3. The Race for City Council District 7
I rank this as a bigger story in 2008 than the mayor's race because I think it's going to be a much more interesting. It is a classic political fight. Republican April Boling is smart and extremely literate on city policy matters. Democrat Marti Emerald is charismatic and, as a television reporter and "consumer advocate" for decades, she's honed her speaking skills well. She's going to be the populist to Boling's pragmatist.
Neither candidate can easily be written off or summarized. Boling is a perennial insider, who shouldn't assume that's a negative designation. There are few people, even city officials, who can so effectively explain archaic terms like "deferred maintenance" and "negative amortization of unfunded actuarial liabilities." In 2004, I remember sitting in meetings of the Pension Reform Committee as then-city officials shook their head at Boling and the committee's insistence that there was a serious problem. More...
» Back to News and Press
|
