"I was disappointed at the time," he said. "In retrospect, it was the best thing that ever happened to me."
He and others launched a campaign to sell the idea to the voting public. Though initial polls indicated the referendum would fail, it wound up passing by a solid margin after "an educational process" that involved "using the bully pulpit of the mayor's office to convince people it was a good thing to do."
"(The vote) put the controversy to rest as well as anything could," he said. "It gave legitimacy to the decision to do it.
This guy went to Harvard? He must have been on one of those "iced tea pit stops" Democrats need when the discussion about that niggling little anachronism known as the consent of the governed happened.
He was "disappointed" when the NFL franchise question went to referendum? He prefers to just ramrod his programs through?
Boner was beset with allegations of ... marital misconduct
That is just priceless.
In a word. YES