Here's My Beef with Mac Kennedy.

I essentially don't have one.  Everyone in the world has his or her style, and those styles can be more or less effective, for whatever is the purpose.

I have spoken to Mac, who is a friend of mine, many times, and I've talked about it in this blog, that his tendency to fill a room with himself, and talk a lot, and remind everyone that he's a Commissioner, and that they voted for him, and that he works hard at being a Commissioner, is unnecessary.

The question is whether, apart from its being unnecessary, it works in any way counter to his goals.  The adverse possibility is that his Commission colleagues would either be offended or jealous, and take positions against him, because they don't like his style.  (They would take positions against the Village and its residents, who are their neighbors and constituents, because they want to get back at Mac Kennedy?  Yikes!)  But I'm sorry (for them) to say they're seemingly not sophisticated, strategic, or perhaps mature enough even for that.  They are essentially inert, and they offer nothing to any of us, or this place where we all live together.  Because we have chosen to live together, we depend on each other.  It's a small place.  To take one example, if your part of the Village looks nice, it's good for me, too.  And vice versa.

This blog is more or less about one thing: BP.  You might think that people who are, let's say, elected officials in BP would care about the topics discussed here.  Three (of the five) of them never comment (or request guest authorship, so they can talk to us about their vision, or whatever else is on their minds), and give no evidence of reading these posts, knowing what issues are discussed, or caring what's discussed.  Another chimed in a couple of times, but couldn't stand the heat, and asked me to remove him from the new post announcement circulation.  Yeah, someone who insists upon having a job in the kitchen, but can't stand the heat.  Great.

I don't agree with everything Mac thinks.  I don't have to.  But I trust him to have at heart goals that he genuinely believes are adaptive and progressive for the Village.  And Mac is the only one of the current five Commissioners who can be bothered to engage with his neighbors/constituents here.  There is no apparent alternative but to conclude that he's the only one who cares.  And all of the evidence is that he cares a lot.