In a maneuver carefully designed to demonstrate how little I know about City Hall these days, Councilwoman Darlene Harris was elected Council President today for a second two-year term with the support of council members Ricky Burgess, Patrick Dowd, Daniel Lavelle, Theresa Kail-Smith and newly minted Councilman Corey O'Connor.
Burgess was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Law by Harris, a position which entitles him to hold a gavel on Tuesdays and to write strongly worded, politically loaded open letters to the city's financial oversight panels.
Since I don't know why this developed, how council members Bruce Kraus, Bill Peduto and Natalia Rudiak came to be left out in the cold, or what this means for the future, we will fill the remainder of this essay with familiar song lyrics.
We're no strangers to loveYou know the rules and so do IA full commitment's what I'm thinking ofYou wouldn't get this from any other guyI just wanna tell you how I'm feelingGotta make you understandNever gonna give you upNever gonna let you downNever gonna run around and desert youNever gonna make you cryNever gonna say goodbyeNever gonna tell a lie and hurt youMORE: The P-G alludes to "
personal political differences"; the Trib has Mayor Ravenstahl foreseeing "
a very, very good time"; Infinonymous detects "
no apparent majority for anything"; Early Returns perceives the avant-garde possibility of "
a veto-proof six votes in support of Ravenstahl"; Chris Potter sagely writes in retrospect that "
Harris' defection to lead a council bloc allied with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl should come as little surprise".
