Posted on 01/14/2011 8:16:53 AM PST by SmithL
The victor is relishing the win and spreading around the spoils. But she could be more magnanimous about it.
One of new Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's first orders of duty was to put up a nameplate bearing her name and the seal of the Office of the Mayor to claim a seat on the City Council dais.
And one of Council President Larry Reid's first duties - at the behest of unidentified council colleagues, he said - was to have it removed.
Reid said it was inappropriate for Quan, who is not a council member, to claim a seat in the chamber.
Quan said the issue is overblown.
"It's removable," she said Thursday in a briefing with reporters. "I'll put (the plaque) back when I'm there."
Make no mistake, the nameplate issue didn't help endear Quan to her former council colleagues, many of whom are angry at not being consulted about any of the appointments she's made.
Quan is going to need the council, or at least four of them, to accomplish her ambitious plan to turn around a blighted East Oakland neighborhood - and anything else on her agenda. She would be wise to proceed cautiously.
The nameplate mess isn't the only questionable move Quan has made in her first days as mayor.
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heh, heh, heh
Ranked voting in itself isn't bad. I actually wouldn't mind the idea for most elections.
Oakland though sounds like the type of place from which everyone who cared left long ago. All that's left now are people who have no problem with violent crime, bad schools and other things that tend to make life in most cities miserable. It really isn't surprising that the people there would choose a mayor who is more concerned about things like engraved name tags instead of more pertinent issues.
Nice to see the city of Cokeland has resolved all of its other outstanding issues, thereby allowing it to devote time to this.
Congrats Cokeland.
'doze it. You're not going to "turn it around."
Liberals always turn on each other. Too rich.
rank.. as in stink..?
Jaaa.. they got it in spades this go-around.
what is it about Oakland that keeps shooting itself in the foot?
You’re not kidding. I have a neice who has lived there for 35 years. Every time she comes back to MA for some family function, she is coked out of her head. Eyes red and swollen; face swolled; unable to carry on a conversation; thin as a stick; hands and feet always moving. What a loss.
It's a system that gets suggested here now and then.
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