ADRIAN FENTY WHITE BOY HEAVEN MANDATE

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ADRIAN FENTY WHITE BOY HEAVEN MANDATE

 

The highly respected owner and editor of one of DC's most prominent political, online blogs/message boards know as DC Watch, Gary Imhoff has hit the nail on the head when he sized up Mayor Elect Adrian Fenty as having been elected on personality but not on any real policy mandate that Fenty might have but never did ask voters to consider.

 

Mr. Imhoff writes:

 

Mayor Elect Adrian Fenty has a mandate; there's no question about that.

 

In the primary and general elections, he won every precinct in the city, and that's his answer to a serious challenge to any of his proposals or decisions: One hundred forty-two precincts. But what he won wasn't a mandate for any particular policy, program, or platform. He didn't run on a platform. Instead, he won a personal mandate, a vote of confidence in him as a person. He ran as a breath of fresh air, as someone whose term wouldn’t be Williams III. More importantly, he won because he gave the impression that he would listen to the citizens of the city and be responsive our interests.

 

That's a vague promise, one that every person interprets differently. A politician's promise to deliver on specific platform planks is one thing. The voters know what to expect, and can measure the success or failure of the candidate by whether the candidate delivers on that plank. But a promise to listen to the people and do what we want is quite another matter particularly because Fenty doesn't really think he has to consult with the people, or even with his close advisors.

 

Every time Fenty makes a decision on his own (say, when he appoints a new police chief without asking the opinion of his major public safety advisors, and even without informing them beforehand), people will think, Well, he certainly didn't listen to me on that; and every time he makes a decision, the people who don't agree with that decision will think, "He certainly wasn't response to my interests on that."

 

The personal mandate, the mandate based on carrying out the will of the people, is the most fleeting and fragile of mandates. That's why the most politically dangerous thing that Fenty can do is to think that he is so popular, so well thought of, that he has a mandate to do whatever he wants, and that the citizens will follow him wherever he wants to go.

 

On the contrary, now he has to explain his programs and all of his major priorities to us, and convince us to follow him. Fenty didn't use the primary or general election campaigns to lay out his platform and to get the public's support for it. Instead, he used the campaigns to convince us that his platform was to support whatever the public desired. Because of that, he has to campaign now and after he becomes mayor.

 

He has to convince us to support his major initiatives in order to convince us that he is following our lead.

Gary Imhoff

themail@dcwatch.com

 

 

Armageddon DC Style already knows that Mayor Elect Adrian Fenty is a puppet to make the rich richer, the poor poorer, to drive out minorities from the city so DC can finally become the White Mecca his financial backers want, and Fenty will do all of this based upon promises made behind the scenes that he can become a rich man if he does what he is told.