So, I wasn’t the only one who noticed.
A story in City Pulse this week repeated a question I’ve raised on this blog before: What is the over-arching message or issue upon which Councilwoman Carol Wood will build her campaign for mayor this year?
Pulse’s Angela Vasquez-Giroux wrote, “Then there’s the big issue: What are the issues? What´s the message? One only has to see her in action at Council meetings to see that she is deeply invested in neighborhoods. Indeed, she has said she hits as many as five neighborhood association meetings a week. If there’s a person in the city who seems to have the pulse on what´s happening, street by street, it´s Wood. But beyond that, it is difficult to discern what her campaign is really about.”
Exactly. I keep hearing and seeing comments about the need to take care of the neighborhoods. But I don’t know what that means. More frequent road repair? More frequent plowing? Cops walking a beat rather than driving around? What’s the defining issue?
If Mayor Virg Bernero is all about downtown and developers — a view I’ve heard expressed — than what would a Mayor Wood be all about?
With the city facing a chronic structural deficit, the proposal of new programs would have to be paired with budget cuts elsewhere, right?
I just don’t see the winning formula, so far.
