So voters won’t get the chance to pass judgement on Sam Sullivan’s term as mayor after all. I’ve endured enough political defeats to know that gloating over his is inappropriate, but I won’t be shedding any tears over the end of the Sullivan era.
Except in one sense. It’s too bad the city that lived through the civic strike last year won’t have the satisfaction of evicting the mayor whose overbearing approach (and thinly-veiled contempt for collective bargaining) prolonged it so unnecessarily.
Then again, pending the selection of the Non-Partisan Association council slate, we may still get to have our say about the NPA team whose support for Sullivan on council made it all possible – starting with mayoral nominee Peter Ladner.
Hear hear. Frankly, it’s more important to me that he not be able to get the chance to slip into the office for a second term than for voters to get the satisfaction of ejecting him. I will say that he’s extraordinarily gracious in defeat, at least in the comments I’ve read so far.
Agreed. Then again, my theory is that he’s now spending his spare time constructing a giant killer robot that will lay waste to the city and ruin to those who spurned him. (Punchline: “He calls it Project Civil City.”)