city council people are the slimiest, especially real estate developers.
for most of my life the mostly low-income small city I grew up in on the east coast had a city council made up of life long long people, mostly lawyers and high position public works people. In the past 10 years, developer types from out of the area, more affluent places, have been coming in, buying a home, and getting into local politics. I think that more than half the city council have lived there for less than 5 years. They're setting into motion monster development projects on land they have purchased.
City had a municipal garbage dump that handled waste, cost residents nothing, and made the city money by handling other communities waste. That's been closed and waste is contracted to a conglomerate. Costs my folks $7/trash bag.
Waste Water Treatment was municipal, provided good jobs, and was very effective. It was sold to an international conglomerate that leaks shit into the river. No more union jobs, costs taxpayers more.
All that's left is the municipally owned power company and I'm waiting for that to be on the chopping block.
What I'm getting at is that developers on city council positions SUCK and are out to use their power and influence to MAKE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES at the expense of others.
Topic: Mike Taylor for City Council (Read 31803 times)