Sunday, December 6, 2009

"[Walker] was and is a counterfeit leader"

James Rowen channels his inner cognitive dissident. My favorite part:
Walker was never a philosophical or actual urbanist - -let alone a pragmatic, down-to-earth, hands-on problem-solver - - though the territory and people he represented are, in the main, urban, and in a particularly challenged environment, too.

He was and is a counterfeit leader, a political game-player, a place-holder at taxpayer expense looking to take as few risks as possible while timing his move up and calculating first and pre-eminently how every news release and utterance and semi-colon will fit into ideological templates and, someday - - sooner now rather than later - - into roughed-out ads.

6 comments:

  1. He's always been a climber who has little care for those he climbs on top of nor those who he represents.

    It still amazes me that a man who put out a press release condemning the million man march now represents the largest constituency of African American's in the state.

    There is little substance to the man but I will give him this -- he understands how he can get ahead.

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  2. I forget, what percentage of the vote did he get last spring?

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  3. I forget the percentage, but I do know it was 30,000 less than the time before. That would be somewhere in the area of a 26% drop.

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  4. Could I get a little more information about the press release condemning the million man march?

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  5. It was still higher than your "overwhelming" victory for the sales tax, right?

    Right?

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  6. Who said that sales tax was overwhelming?

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