Yesterday evening I had an unexpected telephone call. One of the candidates running for 39th Ward alderman called me to answer a question I had asked on his campaign web site. I had asked about the mayoral election. His response was both encouraging and disheartening—he said that he was in as much a quandary as I was.
He did say something that I liked—that he wanted the City Council to be more than a rubberstamp for City Hall. There’s an old proverb, possibly millennia-old that covers this: there’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.
