It’s official: Mayor White is running for the U.S. Senate.
His campaign and his supporters will portray him as a moderate Democrat, a businessman who gets things done. What they won’t mention is that he’s fond of stealth taxation (revenue streams), creating new regulations, and kicking undesirable problems down the road so he doesn’t have to address them.
He’s been known to shake down the mentally retarded for millions of dollars, award lucrative, non-competitive contracts to political faves, and to approve selling a portion of a street to a developer using suspect appraisals, afterwards admitting that the process was less than ideal.
He has favored liberal pet projects and policies over basic municipal needs.
Plus, he can be thin-skinned, and he doesn’t appreciate dissent.
Supporters will say to look at how competently he’s run the city; common sense would say former Mayor Lee P. Brown set such a low bar, it was hard to go anywhere but up.
This will be fun to watch play out.
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