In my Thursday column, I reproduced a letter published in the newspaper, and in doing so I restored a paragraph …
ON THE AVENUES: Government Lives Matter, so it’s $10,000,000 for Gahan’s luxury city hall clique enhancement. Happy dumpster diving, peasants!
… that had been excised at the direction of the editor.
City hall’s relocation addresses Jeff Gahan’s pathological hatred of uni-gov. He’d secede from the county if allowed, and he’d relocate HQ to a suitably luxurious pole barn if one existed. Plainly, the aim is political preservation for Gahan and Democrats, and Reisz is just one move in a chess game to stave off power-sharing with the county.
I think the Reisz city hall maneuver has little to do with historic preservation apart from Gahan allowing David Barksdale and fellow preservationists to co-opt themselves, a fair amount to do with the imperial overlord’s reflection staring back at the mayor when he shaves...Read more
