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ParallelPeterParker t1_j6o8asw wrote

Reply to comment by Little_Noodles in Gym bashes Union League, goes to cocktail party there next week by MagnusUnda

I appreciate your response, but I'm struggling to see how what Rhynhart did as Controller is all that different from say, Gym. In fact, I often feel like Rhynhart was wielding the office to run for mayor specifically.

Ultimately though, neither shows the public why they're better than another candidate (experience!) or why "their plan" is better than anyone else's.

Sorry to be all nihilistic, but no candidate seems to even come close to something I appreciate which is a Liz Warren style "I've got a plan for than".

ETA: I don't even like Warren all that much.

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KFCConspiracy t1_j6ol2l7 wrote

The job of controller is specifically to audit and expose government waste. Unfortunately, she found a lot of it because Butkovitz, her predecessor, did not do that job for a decade. The controller, by the nature of the position, cannot implement anything, only audit and report.

Are you suggesting that Kenney was NOT wasting city resources and inept?

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Little_Noodles t1_j6o9ehk wrote

I’d agree that she was using the last office strategically and in the last stretch, higher office was part of it. But the Budget Director office? That’d be a reach.

And even if she was, I’d still rather someone whose political aspirations started in smaller, lesser known offices where they spent years acquiring substantial understanding of how the city’s bureaucracy works (or doesn’t) and using their skills and experience to produce paper trails of documentation re: mismanagement in the system and areas that need attention and reform.

I haven’t seen anyone else running produce research and reports (which are, effectively, her way of announcing what her “plan is for that’, especially if you believe she was using that office as a springboard).

And yeah, a lot of them have been targeted at the PPD, because that’s where a lot of the big waste and mismanagement is at. But she’s done the same for much smaller - ACCT comes to mind. Not even the council person assigned to ACCT gives a shit about ACCT.

Edit: And you don’t have to be in love with any of the candidates. But one of them is going to be the next mayor.

There’s no option C where if you’re salty enough about your choices, the universe has to deliver a new candidate that’s also your new best friend.

You can pick your least worst choice or sit it out and let other people pick one for you. Those are your two options, short of running yourself.

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