The Village Idiot

Every village has one

Published on November 18, 2003 By Desarius In Politics

There is an alderman in our town that is an absolute fool. He has been in office for 12 years, and basically has no clue what is going on. He was adamantly opposed to a development for political reasons, reasons known only to him, he made a long rambling discourse against the project when the vote came up. However there are so many details and votes later on the same project, after the important ones concerning the develoment, he randomly votes yes or no becuase of course he never reads the agenda, never pays attention, but the classic moves are when he makes the motion and then votes against it.

I am sure the topic of the village idiot will come up in the future of this blog. If anyone's town is missing a village idiot, I have him here, and he's elected.

Comments

Charlie

on Nov 19, 2003

I ask you, "if this person is an elected official" who really is the idiot here. Who put him in power?

Pennywit

on Nov 20, 2003

You'd be surprised at the people who sometimes get elected. People don't always pay much attention to municipal elections, so a surprisingly small group of voters can effectively dictate who ends up running the local government.

On top of that, you sometimes have only five candidates running for five slots on a town board. When that happens, it's pretty much office by default.

--|PW|--

HisHonor

on Nov 20, 2003

I have run for office 5 times in the area, and yet to have oppostion. Many talk about running very few actually do. The last election had 220 votes for the winning alderman out of 5,000 registered voters. Sad

pennywit

on Nov 20, 2003

Addendum: Is your town a town-manager government?

HisHonor

on Nov 20, 2003

We have a manager, for the day to day, but the Mayor wields a very large influence on internal issues, I am not sure if thats me or the process.

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