No still means no, Boss Johnson
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What is it about no, no, no, no, no, no and no that Mayor Kevin Johnson doesn’t understand? Is it the part where he doesn’t get what he wants?
The city council has repeatedly rejected the mayor’s requests to put one strong-mayor scheme or another on the ballot. A citizen charter review committee found that concentrating power in the hands of an executive mayor would not help solve our problems, and would just cause more.
Yet here comes Johnson again, backed by the usual suspects—the police union, big developers and business groups—pushing a package of reforms written by the special interests, for the special interests.
This is where we all collectively roll our eyes, wondering if the mayor and council don’t have something better to do. For example, what about that subsidy for a new Kings basketball arena that—if the details were ever fully released to the public—might just turn out to be an