The San Mateo City Council’s reorganization shed light on how divisive local politics have gotten. Councilmembers Nash and Newsom had politically outmaneuvered Councilmember Lee in the last meeting by holding the appointment of the mayor. Still, she resorted to performative politics instead of negotiating with her peers. It strikes me that Ms. Lee, a social justice warrior, resembles Donald Trump in many ways. Invoking a mob of people to City Hall whenever she does not get her way, bullying a candidate for the City Council because of his stance on a single issue, and now making allegations defaming a commissioner to prevent his candidacy for the formerly vacant seat on the council. If Ms. Lee is recalled, it would not be an injustice.
In Millbrae, councilmembers Schneider and Goodman prevented councilmembers Papan and Fung from rotating into the role of mayor and vice mayor. We can commend all the councilmembers for resolving the issue in one meeting without wasting taxpayer dollars and everyone’s time, like in San Mateo. Ms. Papan will most likely reap all the disdain her sister Diane Papan sowed during her campaign for the Assembly. These may be the beginning of growing pains that will prevent Gina Papan from winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors when Dave Pine is termed out.
It is time cities consider eliminating the rotation of mayors and have one mayor elected citywide.
Mr. Craig, what you say may be valid, but unfortunately, and again, I might add, many won’t give you the benefit of the doubt as you’ve colored your commentary with your “orange man bad” inference of the fake news insurrection. An insurrection, I might add, that resulted in the murder of an unarmed woman by a Capitol cop. Next time, leave out debunked fake news and your message may be more palatable. BTW, now that Twitter has un-banned our great President Trump’s Twitter account, the inconvenient truth for you and all who fell for the phony “insurrection” narrative is Trump’s tweets on January 6 (graciously reinstated by Chief Twit Elon Musk) asking everyone to remain peaceful with no violence.
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Mr. Craig, I am sure that Ms. Ultra Left Lee is thrilled to be mentioned in the company of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Craig, what you say may be valid, but unfortunately, and again, I might add, many won’t give you the benefit of the doubt as you’ve colored your commentary with your “orange man bad” inference of the fake news insurrection. An insurrection, I might add, that resulted in the murder of an unarmed woman by a Capitol cop. Next time, leave out debunked fake news and your message may be more palatable. BTW, now that Twitter has un-banned our great President Trump’s Twitter account, the inconvenient truth for you and all who fell for the phony “insurrection” narrative is Trump’s tweets on January 6 (graciously reinstated by Chief Twit Elon Musk) asking everyone to remain peaceful with no violence.
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