Balls
With the possibility that local developer Bob Ball indeed might run for Mayor, perhaps people ought to keep in mind that during this year’s debate over Curiously-Strong Mayor, Ball lied about the Council’s resolution promising to refer the proposal to the ballot (or simply was inexcusably uninformed about it, which arguably would be just as bad), opposed the idea that an independent Council should have access to its own budget data and analysis rather than simply trusting the Mayor’s office, and (of course) supported fast-tracking a clumsy, poorly-drafted, and imbalanced proposal onto an off-year May election ballot with historically-low turnout.