Councliman Goode,

While we at YPP deeply apprciate all of the public dollars you've wasted by using city machines to post on our blog, I think we can all agree your departure is for the best.

I have also spoken with several security gaurds at city hall. They are tired of being forced to work until 2am so you can write posts in your underware while eating cheese doodles.

It's not so much the underware or the cheese doodles that bother these guys-- it's just that you refuse to share. I understand the FOP is looking at filing a grevience as soon as OJ finds the real killer.

Anyway, I hope you remember our little blog once you become Mayor in 2008. I expect a plump peice of patronage for all my services. Really, I'm a simple man. I want a nice office with a view of Love Park-- with a special section in the park roped off for me, and me alone, to skateboard in.

After we get busted for robbing the city blind, I plan to write angry columns denoucing you for being such a bad mayor. But that's another post for another time.

With Disgust,
Ben Waxman

A class act to the end: and hopefully, it’s not the end, but the end of the beginning.

Politics is a difficult balancing act.
It takes patience and perseverance.
It takes getting up every day and marketing new ideas and forming new alliances.

It is a game of nuanced compromises and gradual evolution. It is a game of cataclysmic struggles of raw power. Incremental progress seems insufficient when our goals are so great. It is easy to be frustrated—it is understandable why so many are so apathetic.

I wish we could just take all the big issues and put them on a table and do some horse trading that would solve our city and our society’s problems in a day or even ten years. Alas, maybe I expect too much. I guess I should remember to respect the political process a little more in our great town. It sure beats living in Iraq or China or Russia at the moment.

The brilliance of good politicians is that they remain positive even when they promise more than they can deliver, they give us hope that change can and will happen. Perhaps that is our leaders’ most important job.

I will say this: the Councilman has been passionate and personable. I can’t say I’ve met him but SOME people on this blog speak well of him and the work he does. :) From my own perspective, I’ve always thought somebody who had the good sense to hire Solomon Jones must have something going for him.

Use that blackberry my friends! Lots of work to do and we have to make sure Mr. Goode stays up until 2am every night. Happy Holidays!