It's Official: Lenny Curry is Running for Mayor

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Is leadership always defined by someone taking a stance?  I thought when people take stances they are considered inflexible and reflect not listening to the will of the people?

I have seen people run for office and take "stances" and are derided and shouted down as being poor leaders because of it.

So which is it?

Ok, how about his position on major issues.

In all honesty, what difference will it make what his 'position' is prior to election?

The largest problem with politics is that every politicians' primary job is what?  It's to get elected.  After that, they can only hope to that they can have enough majority support to get elected again. 

Personal ideology, IMO, goes out the window when it flies in the face of re=election - no matter the issues at hand.

[edjax]

I guess we see why some people get elected.

[edjax]

Is leadership always defined by someone taking a stance?  I thought when people take stances they are considered inflexible and reflect not listening to the will of the people?

I have seen people run for office and take "stances" and are derided and shouted down as being poor leaders because of it.

So which is it?

Ok, how about his position on major issues.

In all honesty, what difference will it make what his 'position' is prior to election?

The largest problem with politics is that every politicians' primary job is what?  It's to get elected.  After that, they can only hope to that they can have enough majority support to get elected again. 

Personal ideology, IMO, goes out the window when it flies in the face of re=election - no matter the issues at hand.

I would think a gay person might want to know if his position on the HRO is he would not support it under any circumstances.  Sure he could say he supports it and change his mind, but if he was straight out against it it may be one reason why someone not want to vote for him.   

[Cheshire Cat]

Lots of people are angry at the coup Lenny Curry's campaign pulled off at the Duval 
 County Republican Executive Committee meeting last week, when he earned the party's endorsement. Technicalities in the voting process — helped by a not-inconsiderable number of people who turned in blank ballots as a way of directly abstaining and perhaps demonstrating dissatisfaction with both candidates, Curry and Bill Bishop — led to Curry not pulling off the required supermajority on the first ballot. It took a second vote to get him there, taken after many voters had left the building.

Yes, Curry got the endorsement he wanted, but not without breaking a bunch of eggs to make the omelet. Bishop isn't happy, for starters, and the more of these shenanigans he experiences, the more likely it is that his supporters will rally behind Mayor Brown after the runoff (assuming, of course, that Bishop doesn't make it), whom Bishop has cheerfully described as a lousy mayor, but never as a man without integrity.

Click link for full article:  http://folioweekly.com/LENNY-CURRYS-COUP-AND-THE-DUVAL-GOPS-CONSEQUENCES,11948

[Cheshire Cat]

[jcjohnpaint]

Sounds like a good Republican to me