His piece on the future of New Castle County, with a little recent political history thrown in, is a tour de force and it has performed a miracle: it actually made me feel a little bit better about Tom Gordon. Not enough to vote for him, mind you, but enough to be not apocalytic about what is coming…
Here is a taste, but read the whole thing.
Now, Tom Gordon is back in. We have the ascendency of the Unions, but the community associations have dried up and blown away. Deemed vestigal organs by the past two administrations, they withered on the vine and are hard pressed to find ones still actively involved in planning and development.
But Tom has his own challenges. Personal challenges. There are two types of people and everyone ranges somewhere between them. You have “good” people and “bad” people… If a “bad” person gets re-elected, he goes, “ha,ha… suckers…. This time I’m taking everything that is not nailed down.” If a “good” person gets re-elected, he goes “… wow, i got another chance to make things right; I can’t eff it up this time; I got to be careful.” Which of these is Tom, depends upon who you talk to right now. It is still close to the election. However, knowing what I know, if it were me, I would do the latter. I would know that I would be rated by my last term; memories are short. Whatever I do in my last term will erase what happened in the first. I will end well liked.