Of course, I should add that there’s plenty of irresponsibility to go around. It’s hardly just Major Tom. Whether simply in rhetoric or in actual votes, he couldn’t have imposed this stupidity on his own.
Commissioners Adams and Saltzman share the blame, especially with the latter’s insistence that having a political campaign was the way to finally involve the public in the discussion. Even if one believed that to be true, choosing to go along with the fast-track to May shows only that Dan either doesn’t understand turnout or simply didn’t actually care.
Those members of the Charter Review Commission who pushed fast-track also share in the irresponsibility. For all of how much they whinged about how we should respect their work and let the proposals be referred, just how respectful to their work is it, exactly, to refer that work to an election destined to have woefully low turnout?
If they truly respected their own work and expected others to do so as well, should they not have respected that a matter of such import — the revision of the Charter to change the City’s form of government — deserved to be referred to an election with historically high turnout rather than precisely the opposite?
So there’s your rogues gallery, devoid of any respect for either the issue or the voters.
Congratuations to Tom Potter, Sam Adams, Dan Saltzman, and all of the members of the Charter Review Commission who insisted upon an immediate referral.
You’re all idiots.
