Doug Marmie writes convincingly for re-election of Guthrie

The best campaign speech is none at all, as Doug Marmie proved in yesterday's Advocate essay headlined "Non-partisan elections may not have the consequences intended."

Doug couldn't have written a better campaign speech for Guthrie.

His thesis: "citizens of Newark deserve ... bipartisan politics." Sure, Doug.

Now you have joined some other city officials who proved in print how aloof and disassociated they are from constituents who are so sick of party politics they could puke.

From all the info I've seen about Doug's work on council, nobody is more bipartisan than he.

Nor is there anyone less bipartisan than his opponent for the office of council president - and that would be Marc Guthrie who has urged the removal of party influence over council decisions, and is using that as a main plank in his re-election platform.

You have to wade through Mr. Marmie's convoluted line of reasoning and see if you can figure out why he's trying to justify intensifying the war zone in council chambers between Democrats and Republicans.

Or maybe you'd rather just skip to the bottom line: "I plan to create the bipartisan atmosphere by my leadership actions."

Even if Guthrie weren't an otherwise competent, highly experienced, and conscientious council leader, Mr. Marmie's bottom line should be enough to put Marc back in office.