| If you caught First Shift with Tony Trupiano this morning, you heard Joe D. from our good friends at Main Street Strategies (this month's sponsor, matter o' fact) talk about the results of a poll commissioned by this site and concerning our good friend Janice Daniels, the part-time mayor of Troy. The results? Seventy-two percent of voters in that fair city want to see her recalled. Joe D. calls it a significant case of buyer's remorse. I can't see any reason to disagree with it. My own personal interpretation of it is that most people don't expect strong, controversial positions from their city officials. Most people expect their elected city officials to serve boring, unexciting terms, and that goes especially for the mayor. What they don't want is a mayor who is going to regularly land in the media for saying strange things and pick fights with the professionals who are tasked to oversee the day-to-day operations of the city. That is the opposite of what Janice Daniels has done, and my guess is that the people of Troy would just as soon see her out of office to avoid further embarrassment. |
