After providing some history of the weighted vote, Mason covers basically the same territory Gossips did, but, true to Register-Star tradition, he seeks a comment from long time mayor Rick Scalera. Predictably, Scalera sees no problem with the way things are and goes so far as to suggest, "It's almost a shame for that alderman to get paid the same as a Fifth Ward alderman." By "that alderman," we have to assume he meant any alderman who represents the First Ward or the Fourth Ward.
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ReplyDeleteReplacing a Morland Commission with the Hofstra study was a stroke of genius, instead of indictments, we got a term paper.
ReplyDeleteWhen you put the number of votes each member of the Common Council wields next to their names, it makes the case more obvious, I think, of how undemocratic this system is. I' ve done that here: http://currentmatters.markorton.com/2014/09/weighted-voting-in-hudson-skirting-the-real-issue/
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