Wednesday, November 6, 2013
The Morning After
Right now, on WGXC, Victor Mendolia, who was unsuccessful yesterday in his bid to win the mayor's race in Hudson, is back on his show @Issue, with the show's stand-in host Tom DePietro, interviewing three candidates who did win: Alexis Keith, newly elected Fourth Ward alderman; Heather Campbell, newly elected city treasurer; Tiffany Garriga, newly elected Second Ward alderman. DePietro will also be talking with Mendolia about the campaign now behind him. Listen on 90.7 FM or online at wgxc.org.
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ReplyDeleteInasmuch as the South Bay was inserted as an issue in the mayoral race - and admirably so inasmuch as its outstanding issues lack leadership - the fate of the South Bay remains entirely with the Common Council. (At least it does until the next time the council relinquishes its authority to the executive, an apparently irresistible impulse for our legislators.)
I'm alluding to the semi-clandestine re-zoning of the South Bay in 2011, by which the Common Council made an unrequited gift to the landowner, Holcim Inc. (it later turned out that the gift was multiple gifts, unbeknownst to the public).
Without Chris Wagoner on the council, the South Bay has lost a stalwart advocate. It remains to be seen whether we picked up someone with actual, demonstrable concern, but I see no reason to make that assumption. Indeed, there are more reasons to doubt it.
For the foreseeable future, the South Bay needs the interest and concern of residents. Don't suppose that the bay's single, unflinching advocate on the Common Council will be able to accomplish anything without it.